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UNINA9910466128303321 |
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Autore |
Visser-Maessen Laura |
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Titolo |
Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / / Laura Visser-Maessen |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-2799-X |
1-4696-2800-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (457 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American civil rights workers - Mississippi |
Civil rights workers - Mississippi |
African Americans - Mississippi |
African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi |
Civil rights movements - Mississippi - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Mississippi Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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