Struggle Is Eternal - Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

He reveals how Richardson's human rights activism extended far beyond Cambridge and how her leadership style and vision for liberation were embraced by the younger activists of the black power movement, who would carry the struggle on throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

About the author

Joseph R. Fitzgerald is assistant professor of history and political science at Cabrini University. His areas of focus include critical race feminism and the civil rights and black power waves of the modern black liberation movement.

Summary

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph R Fitzgerald, Joseph R. Fitzgerald
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780813178745
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-7874-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle; Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas