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Autore: | Spear Allan H |
Titolo: | Crossing the barriers [[electronic resource] ] : the autobiography of Allan H. Spear / / Allan H. Spear ; foreword by Barney Frank ; afterword by John Milton |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
Disciplina: | 328.73/092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Legislators - Minnesota |
Gay politicians - Minnesota | |
Civil rights workers - United States | |
Gay liberation movement - Minnesota | |
Soggetto geografico: | Minnesota Politics and government 1951- |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A difficult child, 1937-1954 -- Bright college years, 1954-1958 -- Discovering the African American past--and present, 1958-1964 -- Becoming a Minnesotan, 1964-1967 -- Love, war, and politics, 1967-1969 -- Campus and community, 1969-1972 -- The turning point: coming out and getting in, 1972 -- Entering the Senate and leaving the closet, 1973-1974 -- The first struggle for gay rights, 1975-1978 -- Settling into a legislative career, 1978-1982 -- A new district, a new partnership, and new responsibilities, 1982-1988. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Allan Spear had a long and distinguished career as a historian and as a Minnesota state senator. Perhaps best known for coming out as openly gay during his first term in the Minnesota Senate-becoming one of the first elected officials in the nation to do so-Spear was also a leader of Eugene McCarthy's run for the presidency, an organizer against the war in Vietnam, and a key proponent for the establishment of the African-American studies department at the University of Minnesota. Spear's memoirs are fascinating and moving: in early chapters on his childhood and college years, he writes with gr |
Titolo autorizzato: | Crossing the barriers |
ISBN: | 0-8166-7536-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459195603321 |
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