Robert Parris Moses [electronic resource] :a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen.
By: Visser-Maessen, Laura [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781469628004; 1469628007.Subject(s): Moses, Robert Parris | Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography | Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography | African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography | Mississippi -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 323.092 | B Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
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