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Author Visser-Maessen, Laura, author.

Title Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen.

Publisher Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

ISBN 9781469627984
1469627981



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 Kent Tatum Center Adult  92 Moses, Robert Parris    AVAILABLE  ---

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Description xvii, 432 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : map, photographs ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Moses, Robert Parris.
Subject(S) African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781469627984
1469627981