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Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Haskins, James | Illustrator: |
| Title: Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement | Date: 1997 |
| Publisher: Hyperion | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-7868-0168-9 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography, nonfiction | |
GED Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| Activist Bayard Rustin is the focus of this biography, although the book also provides a great deal of information about the 20th century Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. | |
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| This book may best be used for excerpting selections of interest. Students may want to explore the blend of personal and professional influences that affected Rustin's choices and actions, perhaps by creating a summary chart. Discussion or writing about the "behind-the-scenes" people who enable more public gestures may also prove interesting. Students may want to speculate about whether measures such as sit-ins would be effective social protest mechanisms in today's world. A group project might be to play with the problem of planning an enormous event, such as the March on Washington. | |
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