Groundwork : : Local Black Freedom Movements in America /

Groundwork : : Local Black Freedom Movements in America / / ed. by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard.

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Over the last several years, the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon, organized primarily by male leaders, that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been complicated by studies that root t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Reynaldo,
Charron, Katherine Mellen,
Crosby, Emilye,
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame,
Jones, Patrick,
Levy, Peter B.,
Morris, Tiyi,
Payne, Charles,
Purnell, Brian,
Spencer, Robyn Ceanne,
Theoharis, Jeanne,
Washington, Michael,
Woodard, Komozi,
TeilnehmendeR:
Payne, Charles M.
HerausgeberIn:
Theoharis, Jeanne,
Woodard, Komozi,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 “They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid” Ruth Batson and the Educational Movement in Boston
  • Chapter 2 “Drive Awhile for Freedom” Brooklyn CORE’s 1964 Stall-In and Public Discourses on Protest Violence
  • Chapter 3 Message from the Grassroots: The Black Power Experiment in Newark, New Jersey
  • Chapter 4 Gloria Richardson and the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland
  • Chapter 5 We’ve Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings, and the Changing Civil Rights Movement
  • Chapter 6 Organizing for More Than the Vote: The Political Radicalization of Local People in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965–1966
  • Chapter 7 “God’s Appointed Savior” Charles Evers’s Use of Local Movements for National Stature
  • Chapter 8 Local Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited
  • Chapter 9 The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943–1953
  • Chapter 10 “We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us” Community Activists Respond to Violence at Detroit’s Northwestern High School, 1940–1941
  • Chapter 11 “Not a Color, but an Attitude” Father James Groppi and Black Power Politics in Milwaukee
  • Chapter 12 Practical Internationalists: The Story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party
  • Chapter 13 Inside the Panther Revolution: The Black Freedom Movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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