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64 Parishes: Recording Louisiana’s history of civil rights activism at grass-roots level

By Lee Sartain, Senior Lecturer in History. History at university is all about the detail – but not so detailed as to lose the overall plot.  How do people in hundreds of towns and cities across a country combine in order to create a movement?  What is it that affects their everyday lives in order for them to become a movement?  This grassroots approach to the African American civil rights movement has been the recent historical trend – the lives of activists in communities across the nation that form change and may never be heard about by most people but are intimately connected to social revolution and national reform.   […]

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