Birmingham and the long Black freedom struggle / Robert W. Widell, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary Black history.
Main Author: Widell, Robert W., Jr., 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Contemporary Black history.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : "To stay and fight" : Birmingham's civil rights story and twentieth-century black protest
  • Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity
  • Delay, retaliation, and the legal process
  • Staying active and branching out
  • Poverty and welfare rights
  • Community health, municipal services, and police brutality
  • The Public Employees Organizing Committee
  • The emergence of the Alabama Black Liberation Front
  • Black power at the local level
  • Repression and backlash
  • Conclusion : the "long" movement and the South.