Black political organizations in the post-civil rights era
We know a great deal about civil rights organizations during the 1960's, but relatively little about black political organizations since that decade. Questions of focus, accountability, structure, and relevance have surrounded these groups since the modern Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968. P...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
c2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009436335106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Relevance of Black Political Organizations in the Post–Civil Rights Era
- One. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? The Political Involvement of Black Churches since the 1960's
- Two. The NAACP in the Twenty-first Century
- Three. The National Urban League: Reinventing Service for the Twenty-first Century
- Four. A Layin’ On of Hands: Black Women’s Community Work
- Five. From Protest to Black Conservatism: The Demise of the Congress of Racial Equality
- Six. “You’re Not Ready for Farrakhan”: The Nation of Islam and the Struggle for Black Political Leadership, 1984–2000
- Seven. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Beyond the Civil Rights Movement
- Eight. Reverend Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition: Institutionalizing Economic Opportunity
- Nine. “We Refused to Lay Down Our Spears”: The Persistence of Welfare Rights Activism, 1966–1996
- Ten. Black Political Leadership in the Post–Civil Rights Era
- Eleven. Where Do We Go from Here? Facing the Challenges of the Post–Civil Rights Era
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
