Freedom season : how 1963 transformed America's civil rights revolution
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2025
©2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 466 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781541675896, 1541675894 :, 1541675894, 9781541675896 CIPO000206633
LANGUAGE
English
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"In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed. Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. Freedom Season shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom"--