A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
The life story of a grassroots, civil rights activist.
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- Temple University Press
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9781566393218
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Civil rights activismGrassroots organizingAfrican American history
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1989)
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