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Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
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Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
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ISBN-13: | 9781469666501 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/2021 |
Pages: | 456 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.02(d) |
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A brilliant assessment of the complexities of social movement leadership. Visser-Maessen superbly explores the story of how a leader helped to shape the civil rights movement without imposing his own will, and by encouraging grassroots activists to make their own decisions.William H. Chafe, author of Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal
Bob Moses of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) broke new ground in the struggle for voting rights in Mississippi by daring to go where few activists and organizers before him dared to go. This first substantial examination of his work and ideas is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the 1960s civil rights movement. Nuanced in its analysis not just of Moses but also of a movement far more complex than many realize, it gives us insight into the still practically invisible Moses while opening a window onto the still largely misunderstood grassroots organizing work of SNCC in the Black Belt South.Charlie Cobb, author of This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible and On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
Laura Visser-Maessen has written a deeply researched, thoughtful study on one of the most compelling figures of the civil rights movement. Her account presents the most complex and accurate portrayal of Bob Moses and makes a great contribution to the literature by trying to reconcile his impact with the inherent contradictions of his leadership style.Chris Myers Asch, University of the District of Columbia