Freedom rights : new perspectives on the civil rights movement / edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer.

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Main Author: McGuire, Danielle L.
Other Authors: Dittmer, John, 1939-
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:ix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson
  • Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts
  • The Young Women's Christian Association's multiracial activism in theimmediate postwar era / Abigail Sara Lewis
  • James and Esther Cooper Jackson, communism, and the 1950s black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland
  • Till they come back home : transregional families and the politicization of the till generation / Krystal D. Frazier, Stacy Braukman
  • Joan Little and the triumph of testimony / Danielle L. McGuire
  • Gender, jazz, and justice in cold war freedom movements / Jacqueline Castledine
  • EEOC politics and limits on Reagan's civil rights legacy / Emily Zuckerman
  • Race and partisanship in criminal disfranchisement laws / Pippa Holloway
  • "The community don't know what's good for them" : local politics in the Alabama black belt during the post-civil rights era / George Derek Musgrove and Hasan Kwame Jeffries
  • "I want my country back, I want my dream back" : Barack Obama and the appeal of postracial fictions / Brian Ward.