Bloody Lowndes : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2009], ©2009.
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Physical Description: | xx, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era
- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement
- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response
- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights
- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics
- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966
- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era
- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.