Birmingham and the long black freedom struggle

Birmingham and the long black freedom struggle /

Birmingham, Alabama looms large in the history of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle, but to date historians have mostly neglected the years after 1963. Here, author Robert Widell explores the evolution of Birmingham black activism into the 1970s, providing a valuable local perspective on...

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Main Author: Widell, Robert W., Jr., 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Series:Contemporary Black history.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • "To stay and fight" : Birmingham's civil rights story and twentieth century black protest
  • Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity
  • Delay, retaliation, and the legal process
  • Staying active and branching out
  • The Poor People's Campaign and welfare rights
  • Community health, municipal services, and police brutality
  • The Public Employees Organizing Committee
  • Origins of the Alabama Black Liberation Front
  • Black power at the local level
  • Repression and backlash
  • The "long" movement and the South.

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