Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots /

Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Visser-Maessen, Laura, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Description:	xvii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Moses, Robert Parris. Moses, Robert Parris. African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography. African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi. Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. African American civil rights workers. African Americans. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Race relations. Mississippi -- Race relations. Mississippi. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10768607

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ISBN:	9781469627984 1469627981 9781469627991
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This new biography casts Moses in a new light, revealing him as a far more strategic, calculating, and hands-on organizer than in previous portrayals of him as an idealist and saintly figure"--

Table of Contents:

The making of a mind
A movement education
You killed my husband
The Bob Moses mystique
A new dimension
Damned if you, damned if you don't
Freedom is a constant struggle
A moment lost
Not a happy time.