If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality

by Rebecca de Schweinitz

Book Overview

How did young people and popular conceptions of children and youth help to shape the black freedom struggle? How did young people contribute to and set the tone for the civil rights movement? In the first book to connect young people and ideas about children and youth with America's struggle for racial equality, Rebecca de Schweinitz explains how historical constructions of childhood and youth, and young people themselves, influenced the long history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807872156
• ISBN13: 9780807872154
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"