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The conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.

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"[A] searing book that captures all of the turbulent civil rights struggles that took place in the City of Brotherly Love, from the '60s to the '90s... Awkward dives right in. He brilliantly juxtaposes Philadelphia's mythic image as the city where American democracy was born with the real life, bitter struggles of African-Americans and their quest to obtain those democratic rights guaranteed by the Constitution signed here two centuries ago - and still being sought today."--Philadelphia Weekly

Philadelphia Freedoms

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    A Hardback by Michael Awkward

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 11/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9781439907085, 978-1439907085
      ISBN10: 1439907080
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.

      Trade Review
      "[A] searing book that captures all of the turbulent civil rights struggles that took place in the City of Brotherly Love, from the '60s to the '90s... Awkward dives right in. He brilliantly juxtaposes Philadelphia's mythic image as the city where American democracy was born with the real life, bitter struggles of African-Americans and their quest to obtain those democratic rights guaranteed by the Constitution signed here two centuries ago - and still being sought today."--Philadelphia Weekly

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