The Westside slugger : Joe Neal's lifelong fight for social justice /
The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that worked...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
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| Summary: | The Westside Slugger tells the story of Joe Neal, who rose from the sharecropped fields of Madison Parish, Louisiana during the Great Depression to become a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada, once known derisively as "the Mississippi of the West." Neal was part of a group that worked courageously to register the first black voters in Madison Parish history, and he battled for equal rights against long odds on the floor of the Nevada Legislature for more than three decades. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 273 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781948908030 1948908034 |