How Free Is Free? - The Long Death of Jim Crow

Informationen zum Autor Leon F. Litwack is A. & M. Morrison Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He is also winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant. Klappentext From Jim Crow to the early 21st century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America. Zusammenfassung From Jim Crow to the early 21st century! struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront! this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.

Product details

• Authors: Leon F. Litwack, Litwack Leon F., Leon Litwick
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780674031524
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03152-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures; The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship