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David L. Chappell

Biography

David L. Chappell

David L. Chappell is Rothbaum Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of INSIDE AGITATORS: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement and A STONE OF HOPE: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow.

David L. Chappell

Books by David L. Chappell

Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by David L. Chappell - History, Nonfiction

David L. Chappell reveals that the civil rights movement entered a new phase following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. These were years when decisive, historic victories were no longer within reach, and veterans of the movement struggled to rally around common goals. WAKING FROM THE DREAM documents this struggle, including moments when the movement seemed on the verge of dissolution and the monumental efforts of its members to persevere.