Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
Contents
African American fraternalism : a missing chapter in the story of U.S. civic democracy -- The panorama of African American fraternal federations / with the assistance of Jennifer Lynn Oser -- African American fraternals as schools for democracy -- Proprietors, helpmates, and pilgrims in black and white fraternal rituals / by Bayliss Camp and Orit Kent -- Defending the legal right to organize -- Black fraternalists and the mid-twentieth-century movement for civil rights -- The achievements of African American fraternalism.