Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle / / by Robert W. Widell

• Autore: Widell Robert W
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.11960730761781
• Soggetto topico: Social 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle
• ISBN: 9781349465019; 1349465011; 9781137340962; 1137340967
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963471103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Black History