Up South Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia

Name: Up South Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
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ISBN: 9780812220025

ISBN-10: 0812220021

ISBN-13: 9780812220025

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matthew J. Countryman

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Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. Although Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice in the years between World War II and the 1970s. By broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure of the liberal program of antidiscrimination legislation and interracial coalition-building to deliver on its promise of racial equality, and the subsequent rise of the…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Matthew J. Countryman is Associate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan.



Introduction: Liberalism, Civil Rights, and Black Nationalism in the Urban North



Race, Rights, and Postwar Liberalism



Civil Rights Liberalism in Philadelphia



The Other Philadelphia Story



A Northern Protest Movement



Don't Buy Where You Can't Work



A False Democracy



Black Power and the Organizing Tradition



Black Power in the Postindustrial City



Community Control of the Schools



The Gender Politics of Movement Leadership



From Protest to Politics


Conclusion


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments