Operation Breadbasket

Author : Martin L. Deppe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820350455

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Operation Breadbasket by Martin L. Deppe Pdf

This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition). Begun by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement, Breadbasket was directed by Jackson. Author Martin L. Deppe was one of Breadbasket’s founding pastors. He digs deeply into the program’s past to update the meager narrative about Breadbasket, add details to King’s and Jackson’s roles, and tell Breadbasket’s little-known story. Under the motto “Your Ministers Fight for Jobs and Rights,” the program put bread on the tables of the city’s African American families in the form of steady jobs. Deppe details how Breadbasket used the power of the pulpit to persuade businesses that sought black dollars to also employ a fair share of blacks. Though they favored negotiations, Breadbasket pastors also organized effective boycotts, as they did after one manager declared that he was “not about to let Negro preachers tell him what to do.” Over six years, Breadbasket’s efforts netted forty-five hundred jobs and sharply increased commerce involving black-owned businesses. Economic gains on Chicago’s South Side amounted to $57.5 million annually by 1971. Deppe traces Breadbasket’s history from its early “Don’t Buy” campaigns through a string of achievements related to black employment and black-owned products, services, and businesses. To the emerging call for black power, Bread­basket offered a program that actually empowered the black community, helping it engage the mainstream economic powers on an equal footing. Deppe recounts plans for Breadbasket’s national expansion; its sponsored business expos; and the Saturday Breadbasket gatherings, a hugely popular black-pride forum. Deppe shows how the program evolved in response to growing pains, changing alliances, and the King assassination. Breadbasket’s rich history, as told here, offers a still-viable model for attaining economic justice today.

Author : Ollie A. Johnson,Karin L. Stanford
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813531403

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Black Political Organizations in the Post-civil Rights Era by Ollie A. Johnson,Karin L. Stanford Pdf

The first volume to investigate the accountability and relevance of African American political organizations since the end of the modern Civil Rights Movement in 1968

Author : Adam Fairclough
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0820323462

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To Redeem the Soul of America by Adam Fairclough Pdf

To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others also played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago. Joining a charismatic leader with an inspired group of activists, the SCLC built a bridge from the black proletariat to the white liberal elite and then, finally, to the halls of Congress and the White House.

Author : Gerald D. Jaynes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761927648

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Encyclopedia of African American Society by Gerald D. Jaynes Pdf

Editor Jaynes (African American studies and economics, Yale U.) provides a thoughtful introduction to this two-volume work, which he explains is intended to be clearly written and accessible for high school students yet substantial enough to engage more sophisticated readers. He explains his choice of the term society for the title, which expresses

Author : Akinyele Umoja,Karin L. Stanford,Jasmin A. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216054535

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Black Power Encyclopedia [2 volumes] by Akinyele Umoja,Karin L. Stanford,Jasmin A. Young Pdf

An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement's emphasis on the rhetoric and practice of nonviolence and social and political goal of integration, Black Power was defined by the promotion of Black self-determination, Black consciousness, independent Black politics, and the practice of armed self-defense. Black Power changed communities, curriculums, and culture in the United States and served as an inspiration for social justice internationally. This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence contemporary Black politics, culture, and identity. Cross-disciplinary and broad in its approach, Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States some 50 years ago. The entries examine the key players, organizations and institutions, trends, and events of the period, enabling readers to better understand the ways in which African Americans broke through racial barriers, developed a positive identity, and began to feel united through racial pride and the formation of important social change organizations. The encyclopedia also covers the important impact of the more militant segments of the movement, such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers.

Author : Peter B. Levy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610697620

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The Civil Rights Movement in America by Peter B. Levy Pdf

This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society. This single volume encyclopedia not only provides accessible A–Z entries about the well-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement but also offers coverage of lesser-known contributors to the movement's overall success and outcomes. This comprehensive work provides both authoritative ready reference and curricular content presented in a lively and accessible format that will support inquiry, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of the importance of the time period. The Civil Rights Movement in America: From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council provides high school readers with accessible factual information and sources for further exploration. Its entries serve to document how the movement eventually toppled Jim Crow and inspired broader struggles for human rights, including the women's and gay liberation movements in the United States and around the globe. Just as importantly, the events of the civil rights movement serve to demonstrate the ability of ordinary people such as Rosa Parks to alter the course of history-an apt lesson for all readers.

Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135581237

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Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations by Nina Mjagkij Pdf

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans for Humanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * Black Women's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science * National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists * National Dental Association * National Medical Association * Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association * Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church * and many more.

Author : Gordon F. Bloom,F. Marion Fletcher,Charles R. Perry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512800487

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Negro Employment in Retail Trade by Gordon F. Bloom,F. Marion Fletcher,Charles R. Perry Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Lauren Araiza
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208832

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To March for Others by Lauren Araiza Pdf

In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers. SNCC was not the only black organization to support the UFW: later on, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Black Panther Party backed UFW strikes and boycotts against California agribusiness throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. To March for Others explores the reasons why black activists, who were committed to their own fight for equality during this period, crossed racial, socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological divides to align themselves with a union of predominantly Mexican American farm workers in rural California. Lauren Araiza considers the history, ideology, and political engagement of these five civil rights organizations, representing a broad spectrum of African American activism, and compares their attitudes and approaches to multiracial coalitions. Through their various relationships with the UFW, Araiza examines the dynamics of race, class, labor, and politics in twentieth-century freedom movements. The lessons in this eloquent and provocative study apply to a broader understanding of political and ethnic coalition building in the contemporary United States.

Author : Gordon F. Bloom,F. Marion Fletcher
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512800937

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The Negro in the Supermarket Industry by Gordon F. Bloom,F. Marion Fletcher Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Mary C. Turck
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613740514

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The Civil Rights Movement for Kids by Mary C. Turck Pdf

Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first black student to desegregate elementary schools in New Orleans. In The Civil Rights Movement for Kids, children will discover how students and religious leaders worked together to demand the protection of civil rights for black Americans. They will relive the fear and uncertainty of Freedom Summer and learn how northern white college students helped bring national attention to atrocities committed in the name of segregation, and they'll be inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Activities include: reenacting a lunch counter sit-in; organizing a workshop on nonviolence; holding a freedom film festival followed by a discussion; and organizing a choral group to sing the songs that motivated the foot soldiers in this war for rights.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : MINN:31951D03669447A

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Federal Data Banks, Computers, and the Bill of Rights by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045464414

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Federal Data Banks, Computers and the Bill of Rights by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199882861

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African American Lives by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3603569

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Pdf