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Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author : Thomas J. Sugrue
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-11-04
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Thomas J. Sugrue and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-04 with History categories.
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. 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. Thomas Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Appearing throughout these tumultuous tales of bigotry and resistance are the people who propelled progress, such as Anna Arnold Hedgeman, a dedicated churchwoman who in the 1930s became both a member of New York’s black elite and an increasingly radical activist; A. Philip Randolph, who as America teetered on the brink of World War II dared to threaten FDR with a march on Washington to protest discrimination–and got the Fair Employment Practices Committee (“the second Emancipation Proclamation”) as a result; Morris Milgram, a white activist who built the Concord Park housing development, the interracial answer to white Levittown; and Herman Ferguson, a mild-mannered New York teacher whose protest of a Queens construction site led him to become a key player in the militant Malcolm X’s movement. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history. Thomas Sugrue has written a narrative bound to become the standard source on this essential subject.
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author : Robert Cook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Robert Cook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with History categories.
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is on the continuing struggle this century. It is a dramatic story of many achievements - even if in many respects it is also a record of unfinished business.
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) categories.
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author : John Wedda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by John Wedda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965 in art categories.
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Author : Orville Zelotes Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-05-01
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Orville Zelotes Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-05-01 with United States categories.
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author : Francis S. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Francis S. Fox and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution, but in many parts of the British colonies the Revolution was anything but conservative. This book follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania's backcountry through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton County during these years of turmoil. Fox's account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes the high-minded pursuit of liberty. In 1774, Northampton County was the second largest of Pennsylvania's eleven counties, comprising more than 2,500 square miles, three towns (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton), and some 15,000 people. When the Revolution broke out, militias took control. Frontier justice replaced the rule of law as zealous patriots preoccupied themselves not with fighting the British but with seizing local political power and persecuting their pacifist neighbors. Sweet Land of Liberty reawakens the Revolution in Northampton County with sketches of men and women caught up in it. Seldom is this story told from the vantage point of common folks, let alone those in the backcountry. In Fox's hands, we see in these individuals an altogether more disturbing Revolution than we have ever reckoned with before.
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Charles Carleton Coffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Maranatha Publications has reprinted Charles Coffin's 1881 history of the founding of the United States with the desire to make the present generation aware of the role that the founding fathers attributed to Divine Providence.
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Author : Callista Gingrich
language : en
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-26
Sweet Land Of Liberty written by Callista Gingrich and has been published by Regnery Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-26 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Ellis the Elephant travels back in time to view significant events and meet important figures in American history, explaining how the past has shaped the American character and made America a land of liberty and opportunity.
Liberty Is Sweet
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Author : Woody Holton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Liberty Is Sweet written by Woody Holton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with History categories.
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America’s unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics. Liberty Is Sweet is a “must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation” (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn—for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war—this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.
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Author : Edwin Silberstang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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