Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement Paperback - 1995
by Kim Lacy Rogers
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When former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke campaigned for governor in late 1991, race relations in Louisiana were thrust dramatically into the national spotlight. New Orleans, the political and economic hub of the state, is in many ways representative of Louisiana's unique racial mix, a fusion of African-American, Caribbean, European, and white Southern cultures. An old, colorful port famous for its French and Spanish heritage, distinctive architecture, and jazz, 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 generations of activists, Righteous Lives traces the risks, triumphs, and disappointments that characterized the lives of New Orleans activists. Chronicling watershed moments in the movement, Rogers' compelling narrative illustrates how blacks and whites worked together to decompress the tensions that accompanied desegregation in the ethnic mosaic of New Orleans.
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- Title Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
- Author Kim Lacy Rogers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New York University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-01-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780814774564 / 0814774563
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 5.9 x 0.77 in (23.32 x 14.99 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects Civil rights movement - Louisiana - New
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.3
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