Civil Rights in Bakersfield by Oliver Rosales HARDBACK 9781477329597

Civil Rights in Bakersfield\nby Oliver Rosales\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Oliver Rosales\nTitle: Civil Rights in Bakersfield\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: MU - University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477329597\nISBN-10: 1477329595\nRRP: \u00A345.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n2024 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic StudiesA multiracial history of civil rights coalitions beyond the farm worker movement in twentieth-century Bakersfield, California.\nIn Civil Rights in Bakersfield, Oliver Rosales uncovers the role of the multiracial west in shaping the course of US civil rights history. Focusing on Bakersfield, one of the few sizable cities within California's Central Valley for much of the twentieth century in a region most commonly known a.