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Better Day Coming; Blacks and inequality 1890 to 2000.
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Better Day Coming; Blacks and inequality 1890 to 2000. By Adam Fairclough Better Day Coming is a historic rendering of the Civil Rights movement in the United States is presented with a concentration on the South. Fairclough teaches American history at the University of East Anglia, and aims to present an interpretation of the black struggle for equality in the United States between 1890 and 2000, concentrating on the South in this book. The first half of the book covers 1890 to 1919, with sketches of such individuals as Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Quickly reviewing major events (e.g., the Great Migration, the Scottsboro affair), Fairclough guides readers through the 1910s, '20s and '30s, examining the failure of Garvey's black nationalism and recognizing the role of the Communist Party in fighting racism. After that, the...
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