Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
- ISBN-10
- 0812970381
- ISBN-13
- 9780812970388
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Author
- Thomas J. Sugrue
Description
Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South.
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