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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466718503321

Autore

Hayman John <1929-1999, >

Titolo

Bitter harvest : Richmond Flowers and the civil rights revolution / / John Hayman ; with a foreword by President Jimmy Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montgomery : , : NewSouth Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-60306-372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages)

Disciplina

323.092

Soggetti

Politicians - Alabama

African Americans - Civil rights - Alabama - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Alabama - History - 20th century

Attorneys general - Alabama

Electronic books.

Alabama Politics and government 1951-

Alabama Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Montgomery, Alabama : Black Belt Press, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Antecedents : the evolution of race relations and politics in the post-Civil War South -- Birth and background -- Growing up the right way -- Maturing to serious pursuits -- A political career begins as civil rights takes center stage -- Years of campaigning while civil rights action increases -- Strange bedfellows : governor and attorney general on a collision course -- Vengeance wreaked -- After the storm -- Epilogue.