Freedom season : how 1963 transformed America's civil rights revolution /
"In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed. Nineteen sixty-three opened with the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed. Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. Freedom Season shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-449) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781541675896 1541675894 |