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Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties » Read Now
by Thomas R. Peake. 508 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle » Read Now
by Glenn T. Eskew. 438 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement » Read Now
by James R. Ralph Jr. 340 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

After the triumphs of Montgomery and Selma, the crusade for civil rights rapidly gathered momentum--until stalling in the heartland of America, Chicago. A vivid account of how the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-67 attempted to combat northern segregation.
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Black Leadership for Social Change ("Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference") » Read Now
by Jacob U. Gordon, Samuel Cook Dubois. 242 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome...
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome racial and economic barriers. This struggle has influenced the exercise of Black leadership in many other areas and the author uses an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the changes, continuities, and variety of African-American approaches to effective leadership. The book also suggests a theoretical framework for future research on the impact of Black leadership in America.
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To Redeem the Soul of America: Public Relations and the Civil Rights Movement, in Journal of Public Relations Research » Read Now
by Linda Childers Hon. 50 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Chap. Seven "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Beyond the Civil Rights Movement") » Read Now
by Ollie A. Johnson III, Karlin L. Stanford. 264 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement (Chap. 7 "From the 'Spirit of Montgomery' to SCLC's First Campaign") » Read Now
by Daniel Levine. 316 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth » Read Now
by Andrew M. Manis. 544 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home...
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When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing in front of his demolished home, Shuttlesworth vigorously renewed his commitment to integrate Birmingham's buses, lunch counters, police force, and parks. The incident transformed him, in the eyes of Birmingham blacks, from an up-and-coming young minister to a virtual folk hero and, in the view of white Birmingham, from obscurity to rabble-rouser extraordinaire.
From his 1956 founding of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights through the historic demonstrations of 1963, driven by a sense of divine mission, Shuttlesworth pressured Jim Crow restrictions in Birmingham with radically confrontational acts of courage. His intensive campaign pitted him against the staunchly segregationist police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and ultimately brought him to the side of Martin Luther King, Jr., and to the inner chambers of the Kennedy White House. Throughout these struggles, Shuttles-worth demonstrated incredible courage and persistence in the face of danger. For that reason King himself referred to Shuttlesworth as "one of the nation's most courageous freedom fighters", and without him and other such local leaders, King could not have accomplished what he did.
Andrew M. Manis argues that, during a ministry that extended beyond Birmingham and into the 1990s, Shuttlesworth displayed in undiluted form the fiery, combative spirituality of African American religion. Throughout the book, Manis emphasizes Shuttlesworth's dual role aspastor and civil rights leader, stressing Shuttlesworth's understanding of his responsibility as a Christian minister as the driving force behind his civil rights activism.
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How Long? How Long?: African American Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Information on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is in Chap. Two "Exclusion, Empowerment, and Partnership") » Read Now
by Belinda Robnett. 256 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
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A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness. Drawing heavily on interviews with actual participants in the American Civil Rights movement, this work retells the movement as seen through the eyes and spoken through the voices of African-American women participants. It is the first book to provide an analysis of race, class, gender, and culture as substructures that shaped the organization and outcome of the movement. Robnett examines the differences among women participants in the movement and offers the first cohesive analysis of the gendered relations and interactions among its black activists, thus demonstrating that femaleness and blackness cannot be viewed as sufficient signifiers for movement experience and individual identity. Finally, this book makes a significant contribution to social movement theory by providing a crucial understanding of the continuity and complexity of social movements, clarifying the need for different layers of leadership that come to satisfy different movement needs. An engaging narrative history as well as a major contribution to social movement and feminist theory, How Long? How Long? will appeal to students and scholars of social activism, women's studies, American history, and African-American studies, and to general readers interested in the perennially fascinating story of the American Civil Rights movement.
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Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South (Information on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chap. 3 "Once in Our Lifetimes") » Read Now
by David S. Cecelski. 236 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980 » Read Now
by David R. Colburn. 260 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present » Read Now
by Charles D. Lowery, John F. Marszalek. 662 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This is the first reference book presenting an overview of the century-long fight for true racial equality in America. This remarkable encyclopedia covers a wide array of events, legislation, court decisions, cultural achievements, speeches, organizations, and personalities that have contributed to...
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This is the first reference book presenting an overview of the century-long fight for true racial equality in America. This remarkable encyclopedia covers a wide array of events, legislation, court decisions, cultural achievements, speeches, organizations, and personalities that have contributed to the cause of African-American civil rights--from the Albany, Georgia "sit-in" of 1961 to the racially motivated killing of Samuel Younge in 1966; from the unjustifiable "Jim Crow" laws of the 1870s to President Bush's veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1990; from the first black illustrated newspaper, the Indianapolis Freeman, to the literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Outlined are the non-violent protests led by Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as the radical confrontationalism of Malcolm X. The peaceful 1964 March on Washington contrasts sharply with the Detroit race riots of 1967--but all the events covered in this volume are objectively and comprehensively summarized. The constant strugglesagainst racism, segregation, and lack of opportunity are chronicled in more than 800 useful and readable entries. Written by over 100 authors, the entries also provide ready access to relevant literature in the field. The encyclopedia also contains a chronology, a general bibliography, and a subject index. It includes almost 100 illustrations.
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Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations » Read Now
by Nina Mjagkij. 768 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Authoritative and engrossing A-Z of over 500 organisations, their founders, and members and how they have influenced Black Americans.