Publication

1992 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

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and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing5787232

Classifications

  • DDC323.1/196073
  • LCCE185.61 .K55 1992

Description

Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking book examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to establish a rich tradition of freedom that emerged from the movement. Healso makes clear that, though liberal notions of freedom involving the absence of restrictions and equal protections were crucial to movement goals, the movement was as much about individual and collective self-transformation and political participation as it was about removal of barriers to socialand political equality. Along the way figures such as Martin Luther King and Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael and James Forman, and political thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon are discussed and analyzed...

Subjects

Topics

LibertyHistoryFreiheitNonfictionCivil rightsMulti-CulturalAfrican Americans

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Other Editions

  • Civil rights and the idea of freedomOxford University Press1992-01-01

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