Title: Degrees of Freedom
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"--
Subjects: African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, minnesota, United states, race relations, African Americans, Civil rights, History, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Middle west, history, United states, history, 19th century