03778nam 22008055 450 991079067500332120210609200641.01-349-46501-11-137-34096-710.1057/9781137340962(CKB)2550000001125743(EBL)1431332(SSID)ssj0000999734(PQKBManifestationID)11634982(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000999734(PQKBWorkID)10944551(PQKB)10950547(DE-He213)978-1-137-34096-2(OCoLC)868957201(MiAaPQ)EBC1431332(EXLCZ)99255000000112574320151120d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBirmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle[electronic resource] /by Robert W. WidellFirst edition.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (287 p.)Contemporary Black HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-137-34095-9 1-299-95133-3 Includes bibliographical references and index."To stay and fight" : Birmingham's civil rights story and twentieth century black protest -- Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity -- Delay, retaliation, and the legal process -- Staying active and branching out -- The Poor People's Campaign and welfare rights -- Community health, municipal services, and police brutality -- The Public Employees Organizing Committee -- Origins of the Alabama Black Liberation Front -- Black power at the local level -- Repression and backlash -- The "long" movement and the South.Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle.Contemporary Black HistorySocial historyUnited States-HistoryHistory, ModernCivilization-HistoryAmerica-HistoryWorld politicsSocial Historyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/724000US Historyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/718010Modern Historyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/713000Cultural Historyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/723000History of the Americashttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/718000Political Historyhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/911080Birmingham (Ala.)Race relationsHistory20th centurySocial history.United States-History.History, Modern.Civilization-History.America-History.World politics.Social History.US History.Modern History.Cultural History.History of the Americas.Political History.323.11960730761781Widell Robert Wauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1489522BOOK9910790675003321Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle3710249UNINA