Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950

by Adam Green and Charles M. Payne

Book Overview

The story of the civil rights movement is well-known, popularized by both the media and the academy. Yet the version of the story recounted time and again by both history books and PBS documentaries is a simplified one, reduced to an inspirational but ultimately facile narrative framed around Dr. King, the Kennedys, and the redemptive days of Montgomery and Memphis, in which black individuals become the rescued survivors. This story renders the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814767036
• ISBN13: 9780814767030
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"