Civil rights and the idea of freedom
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Author
Publication
1992 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1539023M
- ISBN-100195065077
- OCLC Control Number23689579
- OCLC Control Numbercivilrightsideao0000king_r8x4
- Library of Congress Control Number91017504
and 2 more
- Goodreads5037537
- 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...
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