Why not every man? : African Americans and civil disobedience in the quest for the dream /

Why not every man? : African Americans and civil disobedience in the quest for the dream / George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick.

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"As the Hendricks show, the record of civil disobedience in the service of African Americans is not without its failures. But overall it has been a powerful weapon in their quest for a share of the American dream. This is a succinct history of that story."--Jacket.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Hendrick, George
Other Authors: Hendrick, Willene, 1928-2010
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2005.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Political and social views.
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948 > Political and social views.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Political and social views.
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Civil disobedience > United States > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil disobedience.
Civil rights movements.
Political and social views.
Race relations.
Slavery.
United States > Race relations.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why not every man?
  • Slavery and civil disobedience from colonial times to 1830
  • Abolitionists, 1830-1861
  • Civil disobedience and Jim Crow railroad cars
  • Danger : "Have top eye open"
  • From the Civil War through reconstruction : the end of slavery
  • Thoreau's essay travels across the oceans to Gandhi
  • The walls of segregation go up once more
  • "Trumpets begin to sound" : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the beginnings of the civil disobedience movement
  • A better day.

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