Race work : the rise of civil rights in the urban West / Matthew C. Whitaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitaker, Matthew C., author.

Series:

Race and ethnicity in the American West.

Race and ethnicity in the American West

Race and Ethnicity in the American West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995.

Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson.

Ragsdale, Eleanor Odell Dickey, 1926-1998.

Ragsdale, Eleanor Odell Dickey.

African Americans--Civil rights--Arizona--Phoenix--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Arizona--Phoenix--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans in the professions--Arizona--Phoenix--History--20th century.

African Americans in the professions.

African American civil rights workers--Arizona--Phoenix--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

Phoenix (Ariz.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Phoenix (Ariz.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 382 p., [16] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity-a move that would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the nation. Race Work tells the story of this remarkable pair, two of the most influential black activists of the post-World War II American West, and through their story, supplies a missing chapter in the history of the civil rights movement, American race relations, African Americans, and the American West.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610423880

9781280423888

1280423889

9780803250383

080325038X

OCLC:

1024243250

Publisher Number:

9780803248212