Challenging U.s. Apartheid - Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 19601977

Informationen zum Autor Winston A. Grady-Willis is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University. Klappentext A history of black politics and activism in Atlanta, GA. Zusammenfassung A history of Black struggles for human dignity! equality! and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson! the city's first Black mayor! in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists! who take centre stage alongside well-known figures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ix Prologue xiii Abbreviations xxiii PART I: NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION 1. The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and Phase One of the Direct Action Campaign 3 2. Phase Two of the Direct Action Campaign and the Fall of Petty Apartheid in Atlanta 33 PART II: DEMANDING BLACK POWER 3. Bridges 59 4. The Atlanta Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 79 5. Neighborhood Protest and the Voices of the Black Working Poor 114 PART III: THE QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION 6. Black Studies and the Birth of the Institute of the Black World 143 7. The Multi-front Black Struggle for Human Rights 169 Epilogue 206 Notes 213 Bibliography 265 Indez 281

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Grady-Willis, Winston A Grady-Willis, Winston A. Grady-Willis, Winston a. Grady-Willis
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.07.2006
• EAN: 9780822337782
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3778-2
• Pagine: 312
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; Amerikanische Geschichte, 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr., Amerika, 1970 bis 1979 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Regionalstudien