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Democracy rising : South Carolina and the fight for Black equality since 1865 / Peter F. Lau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lau, Peter F., 1971- author.
- Series:
- Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
- Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- South Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
- South Carolina.
- South Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- South Carolina--Politics and government--1951-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive history of the African American fight for racial equality from the standpoint of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, Democracy Rising examines the struggle from the end of the Civil War through the modern civil rights movement of the 1960's. In an effort to broaden our understanding of civil rights and democracy in America, Peter F. Lau describes how conflicts born of the state's history of racial exclusion and discrimination continue to shape the social problems and promises of our time. At the center of the book is the National Association for the Advancement of Color
- Contents:
- Segregation, self-determination, and the making of the NAACP
- Riot, reaction, and the lineaments of reinvention
- Radicalism, liberal reform, and the remaking of the NAACP during the New Deal
- Remapping the struggle for civil rights
- Popular fronts
- Cold war civil rights.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813159126
- 0813159121
- 9780813171296
- 0813171296
- OCLC:
- 70262482
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