Servants of the People The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership

Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Lea E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 1996, 1996
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer
Physical Description:XIV, 253 p online resource
ISBN:9781349614585