Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia

by Matthew J. Countryman

Book Overview

Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. Although Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice in the years between World War II and the 1970s. By broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220021
• ISBN13: 9780812220025
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"