A life in the struggle: Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition

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Now updated to include the final chapter of Ivory Perry's life, this new edition completes the life story of the grass-roots activist whose flamboyant direct action protests and patient behind the scenes organizing helped educate and agitate his community in the struggle for civil rights and economic opportunity.

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Title Statements

Full title :A life in the struggle : Ivory Perry and the culture of opposition / George Lipsitz.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1995.
Edition:Rev. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Temple University Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 308 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1566393213, 9781566393218
oclc:ocm31206917
LC Classification:E185.97.P49
Dewey Decimal:323.1/196073/0092

Pine Bluff : the moral resources of a southern black community -- Korea : the lessons of war -- St. Louis : civil rights and the industrial city -- Bogalusa : civil rights in a southern city -- The war on poverty : the emergence of an organic intellectual -- The rent strike : housing issues and social protest -- Lead poisoning : peace and pain in the struggle -- Politics in the postindustrial city -- Collective memory and social learning : deep like the rivers -- A drum major for justice.

Subjects

African Americans African Americans -- Biography African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mi… Biografie Biographies Biography Civil rights movements Civil rights movements -- History -- 20… Civil rights workers Civil rights workers -- Biography. -- U… Défenseurs des droits de l'homme -- Bio… History Missouri -- Saint Louis Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- His… Noirs américains -- Biographies Noirs américains -- Droits -- Missouri Perry, Ivory Race relations Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Race relations