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Title: The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida by Glenda Alice Rabby ISBN: 0-8203-2051-X Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Pain and the Promise
Comment: A superb study of the civil rights movement in one city that has direct meaning for all communities, north and south. The author traces the sources of the strength of the activists, but does not neglect their weaknesses or mistakes. Covering the period from 1945 to the present, the book gives a rich sense of what the struggle for (and against) civil rights meant then and means now.
Rating: 5
Summary: the best local study of the civil rights movement.
Comment: Rabby has done a wonderful job capturing the essence of the civil rights struggle on the local level. She has the full cast of characters: impatient students, anxious elders, foot-dragging whites,mean-spirited judges, foolish community leaders, and violent racists.
What makes this book so good, so essential is the humanity, the people who led and bled to advance the movement in Tallahassee and the nation, to make America live up to its promise of freedodm and equality.
In the end, Rabby restastes with passion and eloquence an essential truth of the civil rights movement--it was a daily struggle carried forth by ordinary people cast into extrordinay circumstances by their courage and determination.
Read this book if you want to appreciate America at her best.
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Title: From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants by Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto, Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0847681491 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy ISBN: 0813016231 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson, Sondra Kathryn Wilson ISBN: 030680929X Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America : Themes and Issues by Abraham F. Lowenthal ISBN: 0801841321 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Short History of Modern Egypt by Afaf Litfi Al Sayyid-Marsot ISBN: 0521272343 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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