03500nam 22006493u 450 991045422330332120210108131556.00-8147-8439-9(CKB)1000000000522479(EBL)865936(OCoLC)779828320(SSID)ssj0000165893(PQKBManifestationID)11155355(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165893(PQKBWorkID)10144343(PQKB)11220531(MiAaPQ)EBC865936(EXLCZ)99100000000052247920131125d2005|||| u|| |engtxtccrGroundwork[electronic resource] Local Black Freedom Movements in AmericaNew York NYU Press20051 online resource (344 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-8284-1 Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword by Charles Payne; Introduction; 1. "They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid"; 2. "Drive Awhile for Freedom"; 3. Message from the Grassroots; 4. Gloria Richardson and the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland; 5. We've Come a Long Way; 6. Organizing for More Than the Vote; 7. "God's Appointed Savior"; 8. Local Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi; 9. The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati, Ohio,; 10. "We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us"; 11. "Not a Color, but an Attitude"; 12. Practical Internationalists13. Inside the Panther Revolution About the Contributors; IndexOver 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 the movement in smaller communities across the country. These local movements had varying agendas and organizational development, geared to the particular circumstances, resources, and regions in which they operated. Local civil rights activists frequently worked in tandem with the national civil rigAfrican American civil rights workers -- BiographyCivil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States -- History, LocalUnited States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American civil rights workersHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsElectronic books.African American civil rights workers -- Biography.Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.United States -- History, Local.United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.African AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican American civil rights workersHistoryCivil rights movements323.1196/073Theoharis Jeanne1037773Woodard Komozi1048666Payne Charles M1017488AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454223303321Groundwork2477097UNINA