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" Crossing the barriers : "
Allan H. Spear ; foreword by Barney Frank ; afterword by John Milton.
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948726
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b703096
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Spear, Allan H.
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Crossing the barriers : : the autobiography of Allan H. Spear /\ Allan H. Spear ; foreword by Barney Frank ; afterword by John Milton.
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (x, 455 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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0816675368
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0816670404
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0816670412
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9780816670406
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9780816670413
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| Contents
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A difficult child, 1937-1954 -- Bright college years, 1954-1958 -- Discovering the African American past--and present, 1958-1964 -- Becoming a Minnesotan, 1964-1967 -- Love, war, and politics, 1967-1969 -- Campus and community, 1969-1972 -- The turning point: coming out and getting in, 1972 -- Entering the Senate and leaving the closet, 1973-1974 -- The first struggle for gay rights, 1975-1978 -- Settling into a legislative career, 1978-1982 -- A new district, a new partnership, and new responsibilities, 1982-1988.
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Allan Spear had a long and distinguished career as a historian and as a Minnesota state senator. Perhaps best known for coming out as openly gay during his first term in the Minnesota Senate-becoming one of the first elected officials in the nation to do so-Spear was also a leader of Eugene McCarthy's run for the presidency, an organizer against the war in Vietnam, and a key proponent for the establishment of the African-American studies department at the University of Minnesota.
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Spear, Allan H.
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Spear, Allan H.
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Spear, Allan H.
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Minnesota.
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Minnesota.
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Civil rights workers-- United States, Biography.
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Gay liberation movement-- Minnesota.
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Gay politicians-- Minnesota, Biography.
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Legislators-- Minnesota, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Political.
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Civil rights workers
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Gay liberation movement
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Gay politicians
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Legislators
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- Legislative Branch.
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Politics and government.
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Minnesota, Politics and government, 1951-
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Minnesota
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United States
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328.73/092
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F610.3.S64A3 2010eb
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