Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership - Softcover

Williams, Lea E.

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9780312176846: Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership

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ISBN 10: 0312176848 ISBN 13: 9780312176846

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998

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Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.

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LEA E. WILLIAMS is Special Assistant to the President at Bennett College. She is the former Vice President of Educational Services at the United Negro College Fund, and the past recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from Kentucky State University.

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