Carson's history of sncc goes behind the scene to determine why the group's ideological evolution was accompanied by bitter power struggles within the organization. This ideology, with its emphasis on nonviolence, challenged Southern segregation. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white repression.
At its birth, sncc was composed of black college students who shared an ideology of moral radicalism. In the process, carson shows, sncc changed from a group that endorsed white middle-class values to one that questioned the basic assumptions of liberal ideology and raised the fist for black power. Sncc students were the earliest civil rights fighters of the Second Reconstruction.
Used book in Good Condition. They conducted sit-ins at lunch counters, and organized voter registration, spearheaded the freedom rides, which shook white complacency and awakened black political consciousness. Using interviews, unpublished position papers, and recently released FBI documents, he reveals how a radical group is subject to enormous, transcripts of meetings, often divisive pressures as it fights the difficult battle for social change.
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
Included are the supreme court's Brown vs Board of Education decision in its entirety; speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr. And his famous "letter from birmingham city jail"; an interview with rosa parks; selections from malcolm X Speaks; Black Panther Bobby Seale's Seize the Time; Ralph Abernathy's controversial And the Walls Came Tumbling Down; a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, Nelson Mandel, Jesse Jackson, and much more.
An important volume for students and professionals who wish to grasp the basic nature of the civil rights movement and how it changed America in fundamental ways. Aldon morris, Northwestern University Penguin Books.
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
The late Edward M. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Lewis’s leadership in the nashville movement—a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi—set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s.
Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. Told by john lewis, who cornel west calls a “national treasure, ” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.
In 1957, a teenaged boy named john lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Simon Schuster. Kennedy said of lewis, “john tells it like it was…Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history.
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
Newton, who adopted the lcfo panther as the namesake for their new, grassroots organization: the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Penguin Books. Simon Schuster. Nyu press. Their radical experiment in democratic politics inspired black people throughout the country, from SNCC organizer Stokely Carmichael who used the Lowndes County program as the blueprint for Black Power, to California-based activists Bobby Seale and Huey P.
Their fear stemmed from the county’s long, bloody history of whites retaliating against blacks who strove to exert the freedom granted to them after the Civil War. Amid this environment of intimidation and disempowerment, African Americans in Lowndes County viewed the LCFO as the best vehicle for concrete change.
This party and its adopted symbol went on to become the national organization of black militancy in the 1960s and 1970s, yet long-obscured is the crucial role that Lowndes County “historically a bastion of white supremacy” played in spurring black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.
Drawing on an impressive array of sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents and SNCC activists, for the first time, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells, the remarkable full story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement.
Bridging the gaping hole in the literature between civil rights organizing and Black Power politics, Bloody Lowndes offers a new paradigm for understanding the civil rights movement.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? King Legacy
Penguin Books. In this prophetic work, and dreams for america's future, decent housing, higher wages, he lays out his thoughts, including the need for better jobs, plans, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, and quality education.
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
. Simon Schuster. Penguin Books. Waiting 'til the midnight hour traces the history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. A well-researched and well-written work. The philadelphia inquirerwith the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P.
. In a series of character-driven chapters, we witness the rise of Black Power groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers, and with them, on both coasts of the country, a fundamental change in the way Americans understood the unfinished business of racial equality and integration.
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
Exploring the different strands within the movement, and its ongoing legacy, key figures and leaders, Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement is the perfect introduction for anyone seeking to understand the struggle for Black civil rights in America. Penguin Books. Considering both the civil rights and black power movements as distinct but overlapping elements of the Black Freedom struggle, transportation, education, labor, voting rights, Williams looks at the impact of the struggle for Black civil rights on housing, and more, culture, and places the activism of the 1950s and 60s within the context of a much longer tradition reaching from Reconstruction to the present day.
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Penguin Books. Seven white men, raped her, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, armed with knives and shotguns, and left her for dead. Vintage Books. Nyu press. In this groundbreaking and important book, recy taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Alabama.
The truth of who rosa parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. Groundbreaking, and courageous, controversial, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.
Rosa parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Gender and American Culture
Beyond documenting an extraordinary life, the book paints a vivid picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with other progressive struggles worldwide across the twentieth century. B. Du bois, thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr. All the while maintaining relationships with a vibrant group of women, students, and activists both black and white.
In this deeply researched biography, and a teacher, an intellectual, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. She was a national officer and key figure in the national Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a prime mover in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Baker made a place for herself in predominantly male political circles that included W. Where do we go from Here Chaos or Community.
Revolutionary Suicide: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Vintage Books. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party, which is recognizing its 50th anniversary in October 2016.
Nyu press. Penguin Books. From newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, unrepentant, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.
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SNCC: The New Abolitionists
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