Righteous Lives
| Author | : Kim Lacy Rogers |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780814774311 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0814774318 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Righteous Lives by : Kim Lacy Rogers
Download or read book Righteous Lives written by Kim Lacy Rogers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans was a peculiarly segregated city in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite its complicated racial and ethnic identity and heated desegregation battles, New Orleans, unlike other Southern cities such as Birmingham, did not explode. In this moving, evocative work, Kim Rogers tells the stories - in their own words - of the New Orleans civil rights workers who fought to deter the racial terrorism that scarred much of the South in the 1950s and 1960s. Spanning three.
