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Freedom Season
- How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Engelsk Hardback
Freedom Season
- How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Engelsk Hardback

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A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy

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. The months in between brought waves of racial terror, mass protest, and police repression that shocked the world, inspired radicals and reformers, and forced the hands of moderate legislators. By year’s end the murders of John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and four Black girls at a church in Alabama left the nation determined to imagine a new way forward. Alongside the stories of historical giants like James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph uplifts the perspectives of less celebrated leaders like playwright Lorraine Hansberry and activist Gloria Richardson.

Over one heartbreakingly tumultuous year, America unraveled and remade itself as the world looked on. 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. 
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
480
ISBN-13:
9781541675896
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1541675894
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2025
Længde:
39mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Basic Books
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
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