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edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard ; with a foreword by Charles PaynePublication Details
BookNew York University2005Availability
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?Patricia Sullivan, author of Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years “Required reading for anyone who wants to understand what the Civil Rights Movement actually was - a national movement conceived and executed by local people in cities and towns across this country. ?CHOICE, highly recommended 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. Local civil rights activists frequently worked in tandem with the national civil rights movement but often functioned autonomously from?and sometimes even at odds with?the national movement. Together, the pathbreaking essays in Groundwork teach us that local civil rights activity was a vibrant component of the larger civil rights movement, and contributed greatly to its national successes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century
- African American civil rights workers — History — 20th century
- African American civil rights workers — Biography
- Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century
- United States — Race relations — History — 20th century
- United States — History, Local
Contents
- Foreword / Charles Payne
- Introduction / Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard
- 1. "They told us our kids were stupid" : Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis
- 2. "Drive awhile for freedom" : Brooklyn CORE’s 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence / Brian Purnell
- 3. Message from the grassroots : the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey / Komozi Woodard
- 4. Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy
- 5. We’ve come a long way : Septima Clark, the Warings, and the changing civil rights movement / Katherine Mellen Charron
- 6. Organizing for more than the vote : the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 / Hasan Kwame Jeffries
- 7. "God’s appointed savior" : Charles Evers’s use of local movements for national stature / Emilye Crosby
- 8. Local women and the civil rights movement in Mississippi : re-visioning womanpower unlimited / Tiyi Morris
- 9. The stirrings of the modern civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 / Michael Washington
- 10. "We cannot wait for understanding to come to us" : community activists respond to violence at Detroit’s Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 / Karen Miller
- 11. "Not a color, but an attitude" : Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee / Patrick Jones
- 12. Practical internationalists : the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther party / Reynaldo Anderson
- 13. Inside the Panther revolution : the black freedom movement and the Black Panther party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer
ISBN
- 081478285x
- 0814782841
- 081478285x
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