Groundwork : local Black freedom movements in America /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5574020 |
Table of 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.
