| Description |
xv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"They told us our kids were stupid": Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis -- "Drive awhile for freedom": Brooklyn CORE's 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence / Brian Purnell -- Message from the grassroots: the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey / Komozi Woodard -- Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy -- We've come a long way: Septima Clark, the warings, and the changing civil rights movement / Katherine Mellen Charron -- Organizing for more than the vote: the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 / Hasan Kwame Jeffries -- "God's appointed savior": Charles Evers's use of local movements for national stature / Emilye Crosby -- Local women and the civil rights movement in Mississippi: re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited / Tiyi Morris -- Stirrings of the modern civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 / Michael Washington -- "We cannot wait for understanding to come to us": community activists respond to violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 / Karen Miller -- "Not a color, but an attitude": Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee / Patrick Jones -- Practical internationalists: the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party / Reynaldo Anderson -- Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
African American civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century.
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African American civil rights workers. |
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- History, Local.
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Local history. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Theoharis, Jeanne.
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Woodard, Komozi.
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| ISBN |
081478285X paperback alkaline paper |
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0814782841 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814782842 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814782859 paperback alkaline paper |
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