Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement - Couverture souple

 
9780820338651: Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement
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ISBN 10 : 0820338656 ISBN 13 : 9780820338651
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2011

Synopsis

After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible in the accepted narrative of the movement and peripheral to debates on how to research, document, and teach about the movement. This collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think is central to the movement. The essays examine such locales as Sunflower County, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; and Wilson, North Carolina; and engage such issues as nonviolence and self-defense, the implications of focusing on women in the movement, and struggles for freedom beyond voting rights and school desegregation. Events and incidents discussed range from the movement’s heyday to the present and include the Poor People’s Campaign mule train to Washington, D.C., the popular response to the deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, and political cartoons addressing Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The kinds of scholarship represented here—which draw on oral history and activist insights (along with traditional sources) and which bring the specificity of time and place into dialogue with broad themes and a national context—are crucial as we continue to foster scholarly debates, evaluate newer conceptual frameworks, and replace the superficial narrative that persists in the popular imagination.

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À propos de l?auteur

EMILYE CROSBY is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi.

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Éditeur
University of Georgia Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820338656
ISBN 13 
9780820338651
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
510
Éditeur
Crosby Emilye
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Personne responsable
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9780820329635: Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement

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ISBN 10 :  0820329630 ISBN 13 :  9780820329635
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2011
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