Title: Civil rights and the idea of freedom
First published: 1992
Description: Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking book examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to establish a rich tradition of freedom that emerged from the movement.  Healso makes clear that, though liberal notions of freedom involving the absence of restrictions and equal protections were crucial to movement goals, the movement was as much about individual and collective self-transformation and political participation as it was about removal of barriers to socialand political equality. Along the way figures such as Martin Luther King and Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael and James Forman, and political thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon are discussed and analyzed...
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Liberty, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Civil rights movements, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction, Freiheit, Burgerrechtsbewegung, Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- Moral and ethical aspects., Afro-Americans -- Civil rights., Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Civil rights movements -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects., African americans, civil rights, Civil rights, united states, Civil rights movements, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century