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Author Skocpol, Theda.

Title What a mighty power we can be : African American fraternal groups and the struggle for racial equality / Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  E185.61 .S616 2006    Available  ---
Description xiii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Princeton studies in American politics
Princeton studies in American politics.
Bibliography 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.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
African American fraternal organizations -- History.
African American fraternal organizations.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements.
United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History.
African Americans -- Societies, etc.
Added Author Liazos, Ariane, 1976-
Ganz, Marshall, 1943-
ISBN 0691122997 hardcover alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780691122991