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Civil rights history from the ground up : local struggles, a national movement
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- Creator
- edited by Emilye Crosby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 508 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820329635, 0820329630, 9780820338651, 0820338656
- OCLC
- ocn658200401
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part one: Local studies as case studies. Local people and national leaders : the view from Mississippi / John Dittmer -- Challenging the civil rights narrative : women, gender, and the "politics of protection" / Laurie B. Green -- Finding Fannie Corbett : black women and the transformation of civil rights narratives in Wilson, North Carolina / Charles W. McKinney, Jr. -- The 1968 Poor People's Campaign, Marks, Mississippi, and the mule train : fighting poverty locally, representing poverty nationally / Amy Nathan Wright -- Part two: From local studies to synthesis. Focusing our eyes on the prize : how community studies are reframing and rewriting the history of the Civil Rights Movement / J. Todd Moye -- Freedom now : nonviolence in the southern Freedom Movement 1960-1964 / Wesley Hogan -- "It wasn't the Wild West" : keeping local studies in self-defense historiography / Emilye Crosby -- Part three: Creating and communicating movement history : methodology and theory. Remaking history : Barack Obama, political cartoons, and the Civil Rights Movement / Hasan Kwame Jeffries -- Making "Eyes on the Prize" : an interview with filmmaker and SNCC staffer Judy Richardson / Emily Crosbye, interviewer and editor -- "Sexism is a helluva thing" : rethinking our questions and assumptions / Charles M. Payne -- Telling freedom stories from the inside out : internal politics and movement cultures in SNCC and the Black Panther Party / Robyn C. Spencer and Wesley Hogan -- That movement responsibility : an interview with Judy Richardson on movement values and movement history / Accidental matriarchs and beautiful helpmates : Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and the memorialization of the Civil Rights Movement / Jeanne Theoharis -- Why study the Movement? A conversation on movement values and movement history / Conclusion. "Doesn't everyone want to grow up to be Ella Baker?" : teaching movement history / Emily Crosbye