Freedom rights : new perspectives on the civil rights movement /
"In his seminal article 'Freedom Then, Freedom Now,' renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the movem...
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2011]
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| Series: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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Table of Contents:
- Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson
- Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts
- The Young Women's Christian Association's multiracial activism in the immediate postwar era / Abigail Sara Lewis
- James and Esther Cooper Jackson, communism, and the 1950s black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland
- Till they come back home : transregional families and the politicization of the till generation / Krystal D. Frazier, Stacy Braukman
- Joan Little and the triumph of testimony / Danielle L. McGuire
- Gender, jazz, and justice in cold war freedom movements / Jacqueline Castledine
- EEOC politics and limits on Reagan's civil rights legacy / Emily Zuckerman
- Race and partisanship in criminal disfranchisement laws / Pippa Holloway
- "The community don't know what's good for them" : local politics in the Alabama black belt during the post-civil rights era / George Derek Musgrove and Hasan Kwame Jeffries
- "I want my country back, I want my dream back" : Barack Obama and the appeal of postracial fictions / Brian Ward.