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Author : Jack Rummel
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : African American political activists
ISBN : 9781438107820
Whether abolitionists or slave revolt leaders
Author : Jack Rummel
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African American leadership
ISBN : 0816080925
Praise for the previous edition: ..".balanced...useful and informative."--American Reference Books Annual
Author : William McGuire,Leslie Wheeler
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053540079
This book profiles American men and women who have exerted significant influence on social movements.
Author : Neil A. Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438108087
Profiles more than 285 men and women who fought for social reform and influenced American history.
Author : Joanne Randolph
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766093959
Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators, religious leaders, politicians, judges, and even schoolchildren showed the world a better way forward and led the way down the very difficult road to greater equality, freedom, and civil rights. This collection profiles the leading lights in the struggle for freedom and equality, including MLK, Coretta Scott King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Ruby Bridges, among many others.
Author : Davis Belinda Robnett Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198027447
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness. Drawing heavily on interviews with actual participants in the American Civil Rights movement, this work retells the movement as seen through the eyes and spoken through the voices of African-American women participants. It is the first book to provide an analysis of race, class, gender, and culture as substructures that shaped the organization and outcome of the movement. Robnett examines the differences among women participants in the movement and offers the first cohesive analysis of the gendered relations and interactions among its black activists, thus demonstrating that femaleness and blackness cannot be viewed as sufficient signifiers for movement experience and individual identity. Finally, this book makes a significant contribution to social movement theory by providing a crucial understanding of the continuity and complexity of social movements, clarifying the need for different layers of leadership that come to satisfy different movement needs. An engaging narrative history as well as a major contribution to social movement and feminist theory, How Long? How Long? will appeal to students and scholars of social activism, women's studies, American history, and African-American studies, and to general readers interested in the perennially fascinating story of the American Civil Rights movement.
Author : John White,Bruce J. Dierenfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866237
The story of black emancipation is one of the most dramatic themes of American history, covering racism, murder, poverty and extreme heroism. Figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the demigods of the freedom movements, both film and household figures. This major text explores the African-American experience of the twentieth century with particular reference to six outstanding race leaders. Their philosophies and strategies for racial advancement are compared and set against the historical framework and constraints within which they functioned. The book also examines the 'grass roots' of black protest movements in America, paying particular attention to the major civil rights organizations as well as black separatist groups such as the Nation of Islam.
Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780252033360
The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York
Author : Robert C. Smith,Cedric Johnson,Robert G. Newby
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438450919
A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading postcivil rights era African American political theorist and strategist. It is rare that a major leader of a protest movement also becomes an accomplished scholar who provides valuable insight into the movement in which he participated. Yet this was precisely what Ronald W. Walters (19382010) did. Born in Wichita, Kansas, the young Walters led the first modern sit-in protest during the summer of 1958, nearly two years before the more famous Greensboro sit-in of 1960. After receiving a doctorate from American University, Walters embarked on an extraordinary career of scholarship and activism. Shaped by the civil rights and black power movements and the African and Caribbean liberation struggles, Walters was a pioneer in the development of black studies and black science in political science. A public intellectual, as well as advisor and strategist to African American leaders, Walters founded numerous organizations that shaped the postcivil rights era. A must read for scholars, students, pundits, political leaders, and activists, What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People? is a major contribution to the historiography of the civil rights and black power movements, African American intellectual history, political science, and black studies.
Author : R. J. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000525922
First published in 1996. In this volume the author has collected several published works to explore the ideas of manhood in America, Sojourner Truth, ties of ordinary blacks to those still in slavery and a study of the Northern African American community; new information on black activities in Canada and begins with an essay on the five elements of black community activity before the Civil War: churches, newspapers, conventions, organizations, and emigration which looks at of these "platforms for change" going through developmental stages from experimentation, adjustment and reaching maturity in the 1850’s.
Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1750 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471899
This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.
Author : Charles M. Payne,Adam Green
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814767023
"Time Longer than Rope unearths the ordinary roots of extraordinary change, demonstrating the depth and breadth of black oppositional spirit and activity that preceded the civil rights movement. The diversity of activism covered by this collection extends from tenant farmers' labor reform campaign in the 1919 Elaine, Arkansas massacre to Harry T. Moore's leadership of a movement that registered 100,000 black Floridians years before Montgomery, and from women's participation in the Garvey movement to the changing meaning of the Lincoln Memorial. Concentrating on activist efforts in the South, key themes emerge, including the underappreciated importance of historical memory and community building, the divisive impact of class and sexism, and the shifting interplay between individual initiative and structural constraints."--Publisher description.
Author : Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000441178
This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in twentieth-century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of Black women activists in recent United States history. Caffie Greene worked to foster the development of unions, Black elected officials, and Black youth leaders within the Black Panthers and worked with a legion of women leaders to further progress in the fields of health care, education, youth employment, welfare rights, public transportation, police reform, and electoral politics. The book traces Greene’s journey from her childhood plantation life in Arkansas to her emergence as one of the most distinguished civil rights activists in Los Angeles' history. It provides in-depth, meticulously researched archival material to amplify the voice of a pivotal woman and analyzes how her contributions impacted the movements of the postwar era. Examining the pedagogical aspects of social protest as the main resource for consciousness raising among historically marginalized youth and adults, Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists asks the essential question: What can we learn about grassroots community organizing that we do not yet know by centering a Black woman like Caffie Greene’s life? What are the continuities in Greene’s political work between Cold War radicalism, Black Power, and Black feminism and that strict binaries like integrationist and Black separatist, nationalism and socialism, and feminism and Black Power obscure? This book will be of key interest to students and scholars studying Black activist history, Black feminism, and twentieth-century United States history.
Author : Paul Lichterman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521483433
This book challenges the myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfilment necessarily weakens commitment to the common good. Drawing on extensive participant-observation with a variety of environmentalist groups, Paul Lichterman argues that individualism sometimes enhances public, political commitment and that a shared respect for individual inspiration enables activists with diverse political backgrounds to work together. This personalised culture of commitment has sustained activists working long-term for social change. The book contrasts 'personalised politics' in mainly white environmental groups with a more traditional, community-centred culture of commitment in an African-American group. The untraditional, personalised politics of many recent social movements invites us to rethink common understandings of commitment, community, and individualism in a post-traditional world.
Author : John Dittmer,George C. Wright,W. Marvin Dulaney
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0890965404
As its name suggests, the civil rights movement is an ongoing process, and the scholars contributing to this volume offer new geographical and temporal perspectives on this crucial American experience. As Clayborne Carson notes in the introduction, the movement involved much more than civil rights reform--it transformed African-American political and social consciousness. In this timely volume John Dittmer provides a new assessment of the effects of grass-roots activists of the movement in Mississippi from 1965 to 1968, to show what happened after the famous Freedom Summer of 1964. George C. Wright shows how African Americans in Kentucky from 1900 to 1970 faced the same racial restrictions and violence as blacks in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. W. Marvin Dulaney traces the rise and fall of the movement in Dallas from the 1930s through the 1970s while the nation's attention was focused elsewhere.
