Derek charles catsam (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Forty years ago, a South African rugby tour in the United States became a crucial turning point for the nation?s burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of American foreign policy.In Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement, Derek Charles Catsam tells the fascinating story of the Springbok?s 1981 US tour and its impact on the country?s anti-apartheid struggle. The US lagged well behind the rest of the Western world when it came to addressing the vexing question of South Africa?s racial policies, but the rugby tour changed all that. Those who had been a part of the country?s tiny anti-apartheid struggle for decades used the visit from one of white South Africa?s most cherished institutions to mobilize against both apartheid sport and the South African regime more broadly. Protestors met the South African team at airports, chanted outside their hotels, and courted arrests at matches, which ranged from the bizarre to the laughable, with organizers going to incredible lengths to keep their locations secret.In telling the story of how a sport little appreciated in the United States nonetheless became ground zero for the nation?s growing anti-apartheid movement, Flashpoint serves as a poignant reminder that sports and politics have always been closely intertwined.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

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Zustand: New. pp. 436 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 232 pages. 10.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans' prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. In 1947, nearly a decade before the Supreme Court voided school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, sixteen black and white activists embarked on a four-state bus tour, called the Journey of Reconciliation, to challenge discrimination in busing and other forms of public transportation. Although the Journey drew little national attention, it set the stage for the more timely and influential 1961 Freedom Rides. After the Supreme Court's 1960 ruling in Boynton v. Virginia that segregated public transportation violated the Interstate Commerce Act, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights groups organized the Freedom Rides to test the enforcement of the ruling in buses and bus terminals across the South. Their goal was simple: 'to make bus desegregation,' as a CORE press release put it, 'a reality instead of merely an approved legal doctrine.' Freedom's Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, their organizers following models provided by previous challenges to segregation and relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national consciousness. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus. With challenges to segregated transportation as his point of departure, Catsam chronicles black Americans' long journey toward increased civil rights. Freedom's Main Line tells the story of bold incursions into the heart of institutional discrimination, journeys undertaken by heroic individuals who forced racial injustice into the national and international spotlight and helped pave the way for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. …

Zustand: New. In Freedom s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, Derek Catsam shows how the Freedom Rides were crucial in raising awareness among decision makers and in bringing the realities of racial segregation into American homes through nat.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 130 pages. 9.68x6.87x9.69 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 132 pages. 9.69x6.88x0.38 inches. In Stock.

dj. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv]; 421pp. A near fine copy in dustjacket. Internally clean, inscribed by the author to the title page: "To Clea, The Freedom Riders remind us of the true ideals of Joy, Hope, and Change - Derek Catsam 2011" A rigrous and deeply researched history of two specific strands of protest in the long fight for civil rights in the segregated South; primarily the Freedom Riders, but attention is also focussed on the less well remembered "Journey of Reconciliation" where sixteen white and African American activists embarked on a four state wide bus journey to highlight and combat segregation on public transport. Signed.…