Freedom North Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980

Name: Freedom North Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980
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ISBN: 9780312294687

ISBN-10: 0312294689

ISBN-13: 9780312294687

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Woodard, Jeanne F. Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, Matthew Countryman

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The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged triumphant in the early 1960s, only to be derailed by the twin forces of Black Power and white backlash when it sought to move outside the South after 1965. African American protest and political movements outside the South appear as ancillary and subsequent to the “real” movement in the South, despite the fact that black activism existed in the North, Midwest, and West in the 1940s, and persisted well into the 1970s. This book brings together new…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 3/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jeanne Theoharis is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and co-editor (with Komozi Woodard) of Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements (NYU Press).

Komozi Woodard is Professor of American History, Public Policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics .



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction




"Double V for Victory" Mobilizes Black Detroit, 1941-1946




The World of the Illinois Panthers




Exposing the "Whole Segregation Myth": The Harlem Nine and New York City's School Desegregation Battles




"Negro Leadership and Negro Money": African American Political Organizing in Oakland before the Panthers




"I'd Rather Go to School in the South": How Boston's School Desegregation Complicates the Civil Rights Paradigm




Religion and Radicalism: The Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., and the Rise of Black Christian Nationalism in Detroit




Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965-1975)




Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest




The Politics of Culture: The US Organization and the Quest for Black "Unity"




Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City




It's Nation Time in NewArk: Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Experiments in Newark, New Jersey



Afterword



Index