Lifting the Chains

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Lifting the Chains is written by William H. Chafe and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197616461 (ISBN 10) and 9780197616468 (ISBN 13).

Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our mostdistinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. Chafe highlights the role of all-black institutions--especially the churches, lodges, local gangs, neighborhood women's groups, and the Black college clubs that gathered at local pool halls--that talked up the issues, examined different courses of action, and then put their lives on the line to make change happen. Drawing on the tremendous oral history archives at Duke that Chafe founded and nurtured, the book includes unpu.