Groundwork : local black freedom movements in America / / edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard ; with a foreword by Charles Payne

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1196/073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; African American civil rights workers - History - 20th century; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History 20th century; United States History, Local
• Altri autori: TheoharisJeanne WoodardKomozi
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Internationalists ; 13. Inside the Panther Revolution About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 rig
• Titolo autorizzato: Groundwork
• ISBN: 0-8147-8439-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812224303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II