How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow by Litwack, Leon F.
How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow by Litwack, Leon F.

How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow

In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long...
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Author: Leon F. Litwack
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Language: English
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How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow by Litwack, Leon F.

How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow

CHF 93.82
How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow by Litwack, Leon F.

How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow

CHF 93.82
Author: Leon F. Litwack
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time an odyssey of resilience and resistance defined by day-to-day acts of protest: the fight for justice poignantly recorded in the stories, songs, images, and movements of a people trying to be heard.

For black men and women, the question is: how free is free? Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. From the height of Jim Crow to the early twenty-first century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Few indignities were more pronounced than the World War II denial of basic rights and privileges to those responding to the call to make the world safe for democratic values--values that they themselves did not enjoy. And even the civil rights movement promise to redeem America was frustrated by change that was often more symbolic than real.

Although a painful history to confront, Litwack's book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America with power and grace.



Author: Leon F. Litwack
Publisher: Harvard
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780674031524


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2008 pg. 38
Booklist 02/15/2009 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 04/19/2009 pg. 21
Multicultural Review 10/01/2009 pg. 65

About the Author
Litwack, Leon F.: - Leon F. Litwack is A. & M. Morrison Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He is also winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant.
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