Format:
Online-Ressource (172 p)
ISBN:
9780813042411
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on the History of the South
Content:
Imprisonment became a badge of honor for many protestors during the civil rights movement. With the popularization of expressions such as "jail-no-bail" and "jail-in," civil rights activists sought to transform arrest and imprisonment from something to be feared to a platform for the cause. Beyond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letters from the Birmingham Jail," there has been little discussion on the incarceration experiences of civil rights activists. In her debut book, Zoe Colley does what no historian has done before by following civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prison
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. An American Negro Gandhi?; 2. Jail-No-Bail!; 3. From Sit-Ins to Jail-Ins; 4. The Middle of the Iceberg; 5. This Lousy Hole; 6. You Can't Jail the Revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813042640
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813042411
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ain't Scared of Your Jail : Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language:
English
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