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Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.M89 V57 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visser-Maessen, Laura, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses, Robert Parris.
- African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Mississippi--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Mississippi.
- History.
- Mississippi--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This new biography casts Moses in a new light, revealing him as a far more strategic, calculating, and hands-on organizer than in previous portrayals of him as an idealist and saintly figure"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The making of a mind
- A movement education
- You killed my husband
- The Bob Moses mystique
- A new dimension
- Damned if you, damned if you don't
- Freedom is a constant struggle
- A moment lost
- Not a happy time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469627984
- 1469627981
- OCLC:
- 919252647
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