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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Susan M. Glisson - Contributions by Crystal Anderson; Eric Arnesen; Paul R. Beezley; David Cecelski; Constance Curry; Jay Driskell; Minoa Uffleman-Evans; Carol Giardina; David Libby; Ernest M. Limbo; Robert E. Luckett Jr.; Shomari Olugbala; Layl Klappentext The American civil rights movement represents one of the most remarkable social revolutions in all of world history. While no one would discount the significance of the leadership of Martin Luther King and others, we should also recognize that the fight could not have been waged without the countless foot soldiers in the trenches. As an important corrective to the traditional "great man" studies, these essays emphasize the importance of grassroots actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national civil renewal. These biographies assert the importance of individuals on the local level working towards civil rights and the influence that this primarily African-American movement had on others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism, and gay rights. Through engaging biographies of such varied individuals as Abraham Galloway, Ida B. Wells, James K. Vardaman, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Sylvia Rivera, Glisson widens the scope of most Civil Rights studies beyond the 1954-1965 time frame to include its full history since the Civil War. By widening the time frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often unrewarded and generational nature of social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Human Tradition and Civil RightsPart I: Hope is BornChapter 1: Abraham Galloway: Prophet of Biracial AmericaChapter 2: Homer Plessy: Unsuccessful Challenger to Jim CrowChapter 3: James K. Vardaman: "A Vote for White Supremacy" and the Politics of RacismPart II: Should We Stay or Should We Go?Chapter 4: Ida B. Wells: Higher Law and Community JusticeChapter 5: A. Philip Randolph: Labor and the New Black PoliticsChapter 6: Lucy Randolph Mason: "The Rest of Us"Part III: AwakeningsChapter 7: Amzie Moore: The Biographical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement in MississippiChapter 8: James Lawson: The Nashville Civil Rights MovementChapter 9: Charles Sherrod and Martin Luther King Jr.: Mass Action and Nonviolence in AlbanyPart IV: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleChapter 10: Diane Nash: "Courage Displaces Fear, Love Transforms Hate": Civil Rights Activism and the Commitment to NonviolenceChapter 11: Mae Bertha Carter: These Tiny FingersChapter 12: Robert F. Williams: "Black Power" and the Roots of the African American Freedom StrugglePart V: The Borning MovementChapter 13: Judith Brown: Freedom FighterChapter 14: José Angel Gutiérrez: La Raza Unida and Scholarship for Social JusticeChapter 15: Leonard Peltier: A Small Part of a Much Larger StoryChapter 16: Sylvia Rivera: Fighting in Her Heels: Stonewall, Civil Rights, and Liberation...
