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Bayard Rustin : behind the scenes of the civil rights movement / James Haskins.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.R93 H37 1997
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987--Juvenile literature.
- Rustin, Bayard.
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- dictionaries.
- Literature.
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 121 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion Books for Children, ©1997.
- Summary:
- A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Growing up Quaker
- ch. 2. College and communism
- ch. 3. Conscientious objector
- ch. 4. Greater militancy
- ch. 5. The Civil Rights movement begins
- ch. 6. The Southern Christian leadership Conference
- ch. 7. To march or not to march
- ch. 8. March organizer
- ch. 9. The march on Washington
- ch. 10. International organizer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 115) and index.
- Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 1998.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haskins, James, 1941-2005. Bayard Rustin.
- ISBN:
- 0786801689
- 9780786801688
- 078682140X
- 9780786821402
- OCLC:
- 34116418
- Publisher Number:
- 99990724834
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