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Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama / Matthew C. Whitaker.

"A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics, and resistance, Matthew C. Whi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Whitaker, Matthew C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Subjects:
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Politics and government > 21st century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Civil rights movements.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Make Way for Democracy," 1939-1954
  • "Let Your Motto Be Resistance," 1954-1961
  • "Deep Rumbling of Discontent," 1961-1968
  • "So Let It Be Done," 1968-1980
  • "To the Break of Dawn," 1980-2000
  • "The Audacity of Hope," 2000-2008.

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