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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas J Sugrue |
ISBN: | 9780679643036 0679643036 9781588367563 1588367568 |
OCLC Number: | 191732290 |
Description: | xxviii, 688 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Pt. 1: unite and fight -- Sweet land of liberty -- Pressure, more pressure and still more pressure -- 1776 for the Negro -- Pt. 2: hearts and minds -- Balance of power -- No place for Colored -- God have pity on such a city -- No rights more elemental -- Pt. 3: freedom now -- New frontier -- Fires of frustration and discord -- Long hot summers -- Unconditional war -- The black man's land -- It's not the bus, it's us -- Fighting for our lives. |
Responsibility: | Thomas J. Sugrue. |
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Abstract:
Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South.
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