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Just another southern town, Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital, Joan Quigley

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Just another southern town, Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital, Joan Quigley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Just another southern town

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907494310

Responsibility statement

Joan Quigley

Sub title

Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital

Summary

"Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book's heart is the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts seeking to enforce Reconstruction-era laws prohibiting segregation in D.C. restaurants. Through the prism of Terrell's story, Quigley reassesses Washington's relationship to civil rights history, bringing to life a pivotal fight for equality that erupted five years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus and a decade before the student sit-in movement rocked segregated lunch counters across the South."--Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

Prologue: January 27, 1950 -- On to the battlefield -- The greatest woman that we have -- They come standing erect -- An example for all the world -- The radicalization of Mary Church Terrell -- Segregation will go -- This thing can be licked -- A bigger step is in order -- Eat anywhere -- Epilogue: Until full and final victory

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Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's capital

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