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Author Burner, Eric

Title And Gently He Shall Lead Them : Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Published New York : NYU Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (322 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE "A LOT OF LEADERS"; TWO "TO 'UNCOVER WHAT IS COVERED' "; THREE "THIS IS MISSISSIPPI, THE MIDDLE OF THE ICEBERG"; FOUR "FOOD FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO BE FREE"; FIVE "ONE MAN--ONE VOTE"; SIX YOUNG AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES; SEVEN FREEDOM SUMMER; EIGHT "TO BRING MORALITY INTO OUR POLITICS"; NINE DISILLUSION AND RENEWAL; NOTES; INDEX
Summary "This moving account of a key figure in American history contributes greatly to our understanding of the past. It also informs our vision of the servant leader needed to guide the 1990s movement."--Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund. "First-rate intellectual and political history, this study explores the relations between the practical objectives of SNCC and its moral and cultural goals.". -- Irwin Unger, Author of These United States and Postwar America. "Robert Moses emerges from these pages as that rare modern hero, the man whose life enacts
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Subject Moses, Robert Parris
SUBJECT Moses, Robert Parris fast
Subject Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
SUBJECT Mississippi -- Race relations
Subject Mississippi
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814739235
0814739237