Laboured Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War - Hardcover

Ayers, Oliver

 
9781138630901: Laboured Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 113863090X ISBN 13: 9781138630901
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more interesting, movement than previously thought.

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About the Author

Oliver Ayers is a Lecturer in Modern History at the New College of the Humanities in London.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113863090X
ISBN 13 
9781138630901
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
290

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