LEADER 03778nam 22008055 450 001 9910790675003321 005 20210609200641.0 010 $a1-349-46501-1 010 $a1-137-34096-7 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137340962 035 $a(CKB)2550000001125743 035 $a(EBL)1431332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000999734 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11634982 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000999734 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10944551 035 $a(PQKB)10950547 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-34096-2 035 $a(OCoLC)868957201 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1431332 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001125743 100 $a20151120d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBirmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle$b[electronic resource] /$fby Robert W. Widell 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary Black History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-137-34095-9 311 $a1-299-95133-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aBirmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on the "long" black freedom struggle. 410 0$aContemporary Black History 606 $aSocial history 606 $aUnited States-History 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aCivilization-History 606 $aAmerica-History 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aSocial History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aUS History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/718010 606 $aModern History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/713000 606 $aCultural History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/723000 606 $aHistory of the Americas$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/718000 606 $aPolitical History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/911080 607 $aBirmingham (Ala.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aUnited States-History. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aCivilization-History. 615 0$aAmerica-History. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 14$aSocial History. 615 24$aUS History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aHistory of the Americas. 615 24$aPolitical History. 676 $a323.11960730761781 700 $aWidell$b Robert W$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01489522 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790675003321 996 $aBirmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle$93710249 997 $aUNINA