Unseen Light - Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

Informationen zum Autor Aram Goudsouzian is Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis. His books include Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon , King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution , and Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear . Charles W. McKinney Jr. is the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College. A scholar of the Black Freedom Struggle, he is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina . Klappentext Covering subjects as diverse as politics, sports, music, activism, and religion, An Unseen Light illuminates Memphis's place in the long history of the struggle for African American freedom and human dignity. Zusammenfassung Offers a multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the twentieth century. Contributors investigate episodes such as the 1940 “Reign of Terror”, the relationship between the labour and civil rights movements, the fight for economic advancement in black communities, and the impact of music on the city's culture.

Product details

• Authors: Aram (EDT)/ McKinney Goudsouzian, Aram Mckinney Goudsouzian
• Assisted by: Aram Goudsouzian (Editor), Aram (University of Memphis) Goudsouzian (Editor), Charles McKinney (Editor), Charles W McKinney (Editor), Charles W. McKinney (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780813175515
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-7551-5
• No. of pages: 422
• Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle; Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century; Civil Rights and the Struggle; Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education