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- catalog abstract "Fighting Back is James B. McMillan's memoir of a life spent fighting racial discrimination in its many forms, and beating it. This is no plaintive litany of injustices: McMillan's style is to confront problems directly, deal with them, and move on. His story is personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of thousands of other African-Americans who stood and fought to achieve equality under the law. In 1955 McMillan moved his family to Las Vegas. He liked the place from the beginning - it was a twenty-four hour town, with lots of live entertainment, gambling, sunshine, and money - but he encountered the same type of racial discrimination there that he had lived with all of his life. He would not put up with it. Within a year of his arrival he was speaking out and attacking segregation in Las Vegas with such passion and vehemence that he was elected president of the local branch of the NAACP. Under his leadership, and following the example of civil rights activists in the South, the branch was soon taking direct, confrontational action to end overt segregation on the Las Vegas Strip; and in 1960, end it they did, in dramatic and surprising fashion. McMillan's story does not end with the desegregation of the Strip; he has continued to combat racism in all its guises, with considerable success. Following a penetrating and provocative analysis of affirmative action, bussing, the Black Muslims, and other current civil rights controversies, Fighting Back concludes with McMillan and his wife Marie reflecting on the hazards and rewards of their interracial marriage.".
- catalog contributor b10699862.
- catalog contributor b10699863.
- catalog contributor b10699864.
- catalog coverage "Las Vegas (Nev.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Fighting Back is James B. McMillan's memoir of a life spent fighting racial discrimination in its many forms, and beating it. This is no plaintive litany of injustices: McMillan's style is to confront problems directly, deal with them, and move on. His story is personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of thousands of other African-Americans who stood and fought to achieve equality under the law.".
- catalog description "In 1955 McMillan moved his family to Las Vegas. He liked the place from the beginning - it was a twenty-four hour town, with lots of live entertainment, gambling, sunshine, and money - but he encountered the same type of racial discrimination there that he had lived with all of his life. He would not put up with it. Within a year of his arrival he was speaking out and attacking segregation in Las Vegas with such passion and vehemence that he was elected president of the local branch of the NAACP. Under his leadership, and following the example of civil rights activists in the South, the branch was soon taking direct, confrontational action to end overt segregation on the Las Vegas Strip; and in 1960, end it they did, in dramatic and surprising fashion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "McMillan's story does not end with the desegregation of the Strip; he has continued to combat racism in all its guises, with considerable success. Following a penetrating and provocative analysis of affirmative action, bussing, the Black Muslims, and other current civil rights controversies, Fighting Back concludes with McMillan and his wife Marie reflecting on the hazards and rewards of their interracial marriage.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 181 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fighting back.".
- catalog identifier "1564753743 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fighting back.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Oral History Program,".
- catalog relation "Fighting back.".
- catalog spatial "Las Vegas (Nev.) Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Las Vegas".
- catalog subject "979.3/135 21".
- catalog subject "African American civil rights workers Nevada Las Vegas Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Segregation Nevada Las Vegas History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Nevada Las Vegas History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights workers Nevada Las Vegas Biography.".
- catalog subject "F849.L35 K56 1997".
- catalog subject "McMillan, James B., 1917-".
- catalog title "Fighting back : a life in the struggle for civil rights / from oral history interviews with James B. McMillan ; conducted by Gary E. Elliott ; a narrative interpretation by R.T. King.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".