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Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, Charles McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation. Through exhaustive research and a compelling narrative, McKinney chronicles the approaches and perspectives that blacks in this eastern North Carolina county utilized to confront white supremacy. In the face of violence, intimidation, and marginalization, voting rights activists, educational reformers, the collaboration of union members, students, and working class black women activists in Wilson built a grassroots movement that helped shape the course of the national civil rights movement in America.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Greater Freedom
• Subtitle: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina
• Author: Charles Wesley McKinney
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9780761852308
• ISBN: 0761852301
• ID: 04914892
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 445 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 154 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. September 2010

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