A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition / George Lipsitz
- Bib ID:
- 572530
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lipsitz, George
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Description:
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995
- viii, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1566393213 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on the past.
- Summary:
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Now updated to include the final chapter of Ivory Perry's life, this new edition completes the life story of the grass-roots activist whose flamboyant direct action protests and patient behind the scenes organizing helped educate and agitate his community in the struggle for civil rights and economic opportunity.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Peace in the Struggle
- 1. Pine Bluff: The Moral Resources of a Southern Black Community
- 2. Korea: The Lessons of War
- 3. St. Louis: Civil Rights and the Industrial City
- 4. Bogalusa: Civil Rights in a Southern City
- 5. The War on Poverty: The Emergence of an Organic Intellectual
- 6. The Rent Strike: Housing Issues and Social Protest
- 7. Lead Poisoning: Peace and Pain in the Struggle
- 8. Politics in the Postindustrial City
- 9. Collective Memory and Social Learning: Deep Like the Rivers
- 10. A Drum Major for Justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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