Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee - Softcover

Norrell, Robert J.

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9780807847404: Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807847402 ISBN 13: 9780807847404
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town’s experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.
Home to Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and white figures, Norrell takes the reader from the founding of the Institute in 1881 and early attempts to create a harmonious society based on the separation of the races to the successes and disappointments delivered by the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
First published in 1985, Reaping the Whirlwind has been updated for this edition. In a newly expanded final chapter, Norrell brings the story up to the present, examining the long-term performance of black officials, the evolution of voting rights policies, the changing economy, and the continuing struggle for school integration in Tuskegee in the 1980s and 1990s.

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About the Author

Robert J. Norrell holds the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of History at the University of Tennessee. His books include Opening Doors: An Appraisal of Contemporary American Race Relations.

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A narrative history of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, home to an unusually large professional class of African Americans capable of challenging the authority of white conservatives.

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A narrative history of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, home to an unusually large professional class of African Americans capable of challenging the authority of white conservatives.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807847402
ISBN 13 
9780807847404
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
276
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