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Groundwork : : Local Black Freedom Movements in America

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"They told us our kids were stupid": Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston / Jeanne Theoharis -- "Drive awhile 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 Kwame 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 Mississippi: re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited / Tiyi Morris -- The stirrings of the modern 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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : New York University, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0814782841 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814782842 (cloth : alk. paper)
081478285X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814782859 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Theoharis, Jeanne.
Woodard, Komozi.

SUBJECTS
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
African American civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History, Local.