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Reaping the Whirlwind - by Robert J Norrell (Paperback)
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- In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials.
- Author(s): Robert J Norrell
- 276 Pages
- Social Science, Ethnic Studies
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in TuskegeeBook Synopsis
In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and white figures, Norrell takes the reader from the founding of the Institute in 1881 and early attempts to create a harmonious society based on the separation of the races to the successes and disappointments delivered by the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
First published in 1985, Reaping the Whirlwind has been updated for this edition. In a newly expanded final chapter, Norrell brings the story up to the present, examining the long-term performance of black officials, the evolution of voting rights policies, the changing economy, and the continuing struggle for school integration in Tuskegee in the 1980s and 1990s.
Review Quotes
[An] intelligent, provocative book.
Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post Book World"
ÝAn¨ intelligent, provocative book.
Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post Book World"
ÝA¨ significant revaluation of civil rights tactics and strategy.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
A superb, often exciting rendition of the complex interactions and misunderstandings between blacks and whites in a key Southern town.
"Kirkus Reviews"
It is both a "tour de force" of effective writing and a model of fairminded reporting.
Howard R. Lamar, "Southern Changes"
"[An] intelligent, provocative book.
Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post Book World""
"A superb, often exciting rendition of the complex interactions and misunderstandings between blacks and whites in a key Southern town.
"Kirkus Reviews""
"It is both a "tour de force" of effective writing and a model of fairminded reporting.
Howard R. Lamar, "Southern Changes""
[A] significant revaluation of civil rights tactics and strategy.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
A literary achievement that provides extraordinary insight into our nation's struggle with race relations.
Senator Edward Kennedy