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Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement
pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when
and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study
of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World
War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left
operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who
signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors
in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of
discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic
campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more
interesting, movement than previously thought.
Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement
pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when
and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study
of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World
War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left
operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who
signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors
in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of
discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic
campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more
interesting, movement than previously thought.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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