Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Theoharis, Jeanne.
2. Woodard, Komozi.

Description

1. xv, 328 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. African American civil rights workers > Biography
2. African American civil rights workers > History > 20th century
3. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
4. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
5. United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
6. United States > History, Local

Contents

1. 'They told us our kids were stupid': Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis -- 'Drive a while for freedom': Brooklyn CORE's 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence / Brian Purnell -- Message from the grassroots: the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey / Komozi Woodard -- Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy -- We've come a long way: Septima Clark, the warings, and the changing civil rights movement / Katherine Mellen Charron -- Organizing for more than the vote: the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 / Hasan Kwama Jeffries -- 'God's appointed savior': Charles Evers's use of local movements for national stature / Emilye Crosby -- Local women and the civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 / Michael Washington -- 'We cannot wait for understanding to come to us': community activists respond to violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 / Karen Miller -- 'Not a color, but an attitude': Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee / Patrick Jones -- Practical internationalists: the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party / Reynaldo Anderson -- Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer.

Call number

1. Sc E 05-238

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Groundwork : local Black freedom movements in America / edited by Jeanne F. Theoharis and Komozi Woodard ; with a foreword by Charles Payne.

Imprint

1. New York : New York University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Theoharis, Jeanne.
2. Woodard, Komozi.

LCCN

1. 2004017053

ISBN

1. 0814782841 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 081478285X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 05-238