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Author:
Visser-Maessen, Laura, author.
Title:
Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen.
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xvii, 432 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1469627981
9781469627984
OCLC:
(OCoLC)919252647
LCCN:
2015031955
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

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