Birmingham and the long black freedom struggle [electronic resource] / Robert W. Widell, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Widell, Robert W., Jr., 1974-
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2013 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • "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
  • The Poor People's Campaign and welfare rights
  • Community health, municipal services, and police brutality
  • The Public Employees Organizing Committee
  • Origins of the Alabama Black Liberation Front
  • Black power at the local level
  • Repression and backlash
  • The "long" movement and the South.