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Groundwork [[electronic resource] ] : Local Black Freedom Movements in America



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Autore: Theoharis Jeanne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Groundwork [[electronic resource] ] : Local Black Freedom Movements in America Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : NYU Press, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1196/073
Soggetto topico: 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 Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century - United States
African American civil rights workers - History - 20th century
Civil rights movements
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Altri autori: WoodardKomozi  
PayneCharles M  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-8439-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782061403321
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