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BL
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702125
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b524314
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Whitaker, Matthew C
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| Title & Author
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Race work : : the rise of civil rights in the urban West /\ Matthew C. Whitaker
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, c2005
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| Series Statement
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Race and ethnicity in the American West
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xiv, 382 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0803248210 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780803248212 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-367) and index
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| Contents
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I: Power concedes nothing without demand -- The black professional tradition -- Tuskegee, World War II, and the new black activism -- Mobilization, agitation, and protest -- 2: Creative and persistent -- Resistance and interracial dissent -- The quickening -- Black and Chicano leadership and the struggle for access and opportunity -- 3: Moving forward counterclockwise -- The struggle for racial equality in Phoenix, 1980-2000 -- Conclusion: racial uplift in Phoenix
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Tells the story of Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale, African American activists who led the movement to desegregate Phoenix, Arizona, in the years following World War II; and through the story of their efforts presents an account of white supremacy and black resistance in Phoenix
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Ragsdale, Eleanor Odell Dickey,1926-1998
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Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson,1926-1995
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African American civil rights workers-- Arizona-- Phoenix, Biography
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African Americans in the professions-- Arizona-- Phoenix-- History-- 20th century
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- Arizona-- Phoenix-- History-- 20th century
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Civil rights movements-- Arizona-- Phoenix-- History-- 20th century
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Phoenix (Ariz.), Race relations, History, 20th century
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| Dewey Classification
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323/.092/279173
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| LC Classification
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F819.P57W47 2005
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