BETTER DAY COMING / Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Fairclough, Adam

ISBN 10: 0670875929 / ISBN 13: 9780670875924

Published by Viking, New York, 2001

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First edition, first printing, hardcover. 384 pages. Notes, index. Fine in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. "Fairclough's splendidly researched, cogently articulated study may well represent the finest single piece of published scholarship on the American Civil Rights Movement." - R.A. Fisher, CHOICE, from the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 007756

Bibliographic Details

Title: BETTER DAY COMING / Blacks and Equality, ...

Publisher: Viking, New York

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Traces the efforts of African Americans to achieve equality and civil rights in the era following the collapse of Reconstruction to the present day, examining such key events as Ida B. Wells's campaign against lynching in the 1890s, the formation of the NAACP, Marcus Garvey and the growth of black nationalism, and the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Review:

"In the hands of Adam Fairclough, BETTER DAY COMING, does more than any other book to place the historic Civil Rights Movement within the broader scope of the Black Freedom Struggle in the twentieth century. A distinguished historian has crafted an impressive narrative of persistence and resistance, heroism and timidity. A must read for the rising generation of young people for whom the Civil Rights Movement has been relegated to ancient history." Steven F. Lawson Rutgers University

"Just right and badly needed. I know of no other text that covers these years. I will definitely adopt." Daniel Levine, Bowdoin College

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