Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement - A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973

The book examines how the coalition among the national African American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the Civil Rights Movement.
Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years-a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement.

The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Old and New Movements
Chapter 1 Violence Is Necessary
Chapter 2 Open Season
Chapter 3 Shocked and Saddened
Chapter 4 Facing Annihilation
Chapter 5 A Hanging Judge
Chapter 6 Manifesto
Chapter 7 No Peace in This Land
Chapter 8 Heads-Up Murder
Chapter 9 Times Have Changed
Chapter 10 The Revolutionary Army
Chapter 11 Same Old Thing
Chapter 12 Run by Dictators
Chapter 13 Explode All over the Landscape
Chapter 14 Nation Time
Chapter 15 Groovin' on Democracy
Chapter 16 Their Most Vulnerable, Hopeless Position
Chapter 17 Kicking the Blacks Around
Chapter 18 The Movement of the Seventies
Epilogue: Leaders without a Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christopher P. Lehman, PhD, is professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN.

Product details

• Authors: Inc (C Associates, Christopher Lehman, Christopher P. Lehman, Christopher/ Crichton & Associates Lehman, Christopher/ Crichton & Lehman, Lehman Christopher P.
• Assisted by: Crichton & Associates Inc (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781440832659
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-3265-9
• No. of pages: 385
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Civil rights & citizenship, c 1970 to c 1980, Black & Asian Studies, Civics and citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General