Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots /

Visser-Maessen, Laura,

Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The making of a mind -- A movement education -- You killed my husband -- The Bob Moses mystique -- A new dimension -- Damned if you, damned if you don't -- Freedom is a constant struggle -- A moment lost -- Not a happy time.

"This new biography casts Moses in a new light, revealing him as a far more strategic, calculating, and hands-on organizer than in previous portrayals of him as an idealist and saintly figure"--



9781469628004


Moses, Robert Parris.


African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
African Americans--Mississippi--Biography.
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .R634 2016