Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement

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New Orleans was a peculiarly segregated city in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite its complicated racial and ethnic identity and heated desegregation battles, New Orleans, unlike other Southern cities such as Birmingham, did not explode. In this moving, evocative work, Kim Rogers tells the stories – in their own words – of the New Orleans civil rights workers who fought to deter the racial terrorism that scarred much of the South in the 1950s and 1960s. Spanning three.

• Author: Kim Lacy Rogers
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Published: 1993
• Pages: 295
• ISBN-13: 9780814774564