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| Title | : | Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FAPU4WY |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 466 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
Thomas Sugrue released Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North on 0000-00-00. It has 466 number of pages. u can get it on paperback or you can read it online. Beside, you can download it on any format you want such as PDF, Epub, Kindle, doc or other format. Just follow the simple step.
Bookreporter said A history of political reality. Slavery was a Southern phenomenon, and the civil rights movement, in its most public aspect, focused on the South, a myopic viewpoint that ignored the very real battles that were being fought in the North. There is also a common myth that civil rights as a whole ceased to be a movement of any consequence after the 1960s. SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY addresses both misconceptions.The author of this extensively researched history is Thomas J. Sugrue, whose first book, THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in History, the President's Book Awar. Excellent and amazing review of the entire history of Civil Rights Far too often the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States focuses on the south and ends with the passage of the Civil Rights acts under the Johnson Administration. This book does a great job of showing that the North was in many cases as much of a battle ground for the civil rights movement than the south was. While many of the discriminatory laws were not codified like they were in the south, racism was as much of an institution in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York as anywhere else. Also, the north had the growing suburbs which always were opp. Conflict and Foot dragging in Sweet Land of Liberty Jim Crooks Few Americans, especially Northern whites, know the story of African Americans seeking equality and justice in the North. Most believe civil rights was a Southern phenomenon. But from the 1920s onward, African Americans in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities struggled for access to restaurant dining, hotels, schools, housing and jobs against a white-dominated system that for years blocked every effort. Thomas Sugre tells their stories with insight and understanding, in a very readable manner.I found Sweet Land of Liberty to be one of the bett
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