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Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots
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- Summary
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"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"--
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- Creator
- Laura Visser-Maessen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 146962799X, 9781469628004, 9798890848369, 1469627981, 9781469627984, 9781469627991, 1469628007
- OCLC
- ocn919252647, ocn941138243
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Moses, Robert Parris.
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
- Mississippi -- Race relations.