Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream

by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick

Book Overview

The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636450
• ISBN13: 9781566636452
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"