Robert Parris Moses a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / [electronic resource] :
Laura Visser-Maessen.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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"--
9781469628004 1469628007
Moses, Robert Parris.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century. African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi. African Americans--Mississippi--Biography. Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography. African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.