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The Hands That Built the March

The Hands That Built the March

Di Prescott, Caleb

Pubblicato da epubli

English 2026
eBook

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This book shifts the spotlight from the iconic leaders of the Civil Rights Movement to the often‑overlooked organizers—field secretaries, local coordinators, women's‑club strategists, and student‑committee architects—who turned boycotts, sit‑ins, and mass marches into sustained national campaigns. It asks how the journeys of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and other famous figures were framed, driven, and protected by networks of activists whose names rarely appeared in headlines. The narrative traces three key mechanisms: the everyday labor of local organizers such as Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, Jo Ann Robinson, and local NAACP chapters, who mapped bus routes, mimeographed flyers, and rehearsed protest logistics; the quiet mentorship that turned student sit‑in leaders into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and sent Freedom Riders into the Deep South; and the structural erasure by media and memory, which compressed complicated grassroots ecosystems into tidy portraits of individual heroes. Drawing on oral histories, movement‑organization records, and church‑bulletin minutes, the book shows how the movement's real power lay in its depth—ordinary people who organized, fundraised, and risked their lives in the shadows of the microphone.

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The Hands That Built the March è disponibile come eBook in 8 librerie online. Tra le librerie che lo vendono ci sono Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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