Degrees of Freedom
Subtitle: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780816693467
Subjects: African americans, civil rights; Civil rights movements, united states; African americans, minnesota; United states, race relations
Description: "Spanning the half-century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state and of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. William D. Green reveals little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following the Fifteenth Amendment; worked as farmhands and laborers; built communities, businesses, and a newspaper; and embodied the slow but inexorable advancement of race relations in the state over time"--