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Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream

Why Not Every Man?: African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream


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The record of civil disobedience by African Americans begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, Emancipation, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of freedom. The Hendricks also show how the idea of civil disobedience, first suggested in America by Henry David Thoreau, crossed oceans to influence Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose thinking in turn attracted a young divinity student named Martin Luther King, Jr. This powerful yet concise work...traces the idea of civil disobedience over time and place...A welcome and timely book for a broad general audience.-John David Smith.

About the Author :
George and Willene Hendrick are independent scholars and researchers who together have written The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship and have edited Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad, Two Slave Rebellions at Sea, and several collections of Carl Sandburg's poems. George Hendrick, formerly professor of English at the University of Illinois, has also edited To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones. The Hendricks live in Urbana, Illinois.

Review :
"Again the Hendricks have produced a powerful work. Their important new book is welcome and timely for a broad audience." --John David Smith, professor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte "The authors ably interweave the historical pre-conditions of nonviolent civil disobedience into a tapestry that forms the foundation for the modern civil rights movement." --Vernon Ford, Booklist "A quick introduction to antislavery or black civil rights thinking." --Thomas J. Davis, Library Journal "Smoothly written and powerful . . . an invaluable resource." --Kliatt "An excellent history of the idea of civil disobedience evolves within the civil rights framework." --Diane C. Donovan, editor, Midwest Book Review, Midwest Book Review "George Hendrick and his wife, Willene, tackle a difficult subject with passion and clarity." --Illinois Alumni Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781566636094
  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1566636094
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream


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