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Title:

Groundwork : local black freedom movements in America / edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard ; with a foreword by Charles Payne.

Publisher:

New York University,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Theoharis, Jeanne.
Woodard, Komozi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Robyn Ceanne Spencer. "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.

ISBN:

9780814782859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081478285X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814782842 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814782841 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004017053

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)