Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

by Danielle L. McGuire

Book Overview

The history of the Civil Rights Movement is too frequently simplified and uncritically passed down from generation to generation. Many students today learn about famous leaders and national campaigns without getting much context about the many people who struggled for many years at local levels. Historian Steven F. Lawson became frustrated with the widely accepted depiction of the Movement and called for a broader and more interactive model of scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081313448X
• ISBN13: 9780813134482
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher