03973nam 2200589 a 450 99624797070331620200309211007.00-19-025972-81-282-97778-497866129777870-19-975060-2(CKB)2670000000066835(EBL)648024(OCoLC)702135102(SSID)ssj0000468072(PQKBManifestationID)12156587(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468072(PQKBWorkID)10497603(PQKB)11135337(StDuBDS)EDZ0001100862(MiAaPQ)EBC648024(EXLCZ)99267000000006683520100311d2011 uy 0engtxtccrCourage to dissent[electronic resource] Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement /Tomiko Brown-NaginNew York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (603 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-993201-8 0-19-538659-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era -- "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism -- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957 -- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959 -- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958 -- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959 -- pt. 2. The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960's -- Seeking redress in the streets : the student movement's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961 -- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964 -- Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964 -- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967 -- pt. 3. Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle -- A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971 -- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974 -- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction against centuries of racial discrimination. In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940's through 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that the movement featured a vast array of activists and many sophisticated approaches to activism. Long before ""black power"" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a new name, African Americans in Atlanta debated the meaning of equality and the stepSegregationLaw and legislationGeorgiaAtlantaHistorySegregationLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistorySegregationGeorgiaAtlantaHistoryCivil rights movementsGeorgiaAtlantaHistory20th centuryElectronic books.SegregationLaw and legislationHistory.SegregationLaw and legislationHistory.SegregationHistory.Civil rights movementsHistory342.7308/5Brown-Nagin Tomiko1970-1011417MiAaPQBOOK996247970703316Courage to dissent2343181UNISA