Crossing the barriers : the autobiography of Allan H. Spear / Allan H. Spear ; foreword by Barney Frank ; afterword by John Milton.
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Crossing the barriers : the autobiography of Allan H. Spear / Allan H. Spear ; foreword by Barney Frank ; afterword by John Milton.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2010
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1 online resource (x, 455 pages)
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Includes index.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Foreword / Barney Frank -- A difficult child, 1937-1954 -- Bright college years, 1954-1958 -- Discovering the African American past--and present, 1958-1964 -- Becoming a Minnesotan, 1964-1967 -- Love, war, and politics, 1967-1969 -- Campus and community, 1969-1972 -- The turning point : coming out and getting in, 1972 -- Entering the Senate and leaving the closet, 1973-1974 -- The first struggle for gay rights, 1975-1978 -- Settling into a legislative career, 1978-1982 -- A new district, a new partnership, and new responsibilities, 1982-1988 -- Afterword / John Milton.
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Autobiography of Minnesota state senator and activist Allan Spear, who recounts his life and achievements serving in the state legislature for over twenty years. Begins with his childhood, his activism in Vietnam antiwar movements in college, his awareness that he was gay and coming out while a state senator, one of the first men to do so, and his political accomplishments, including fighting for the establishment of the African American studies program at the University of Minnesota and the passage of the Human Rights Act, which protected LGBTQ from housing, employment, and education discrimination.
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