Birmingham and the long Black freedom struggle / Robert W. Widell, Jr.
Uniform Title: | Contemporary Black history.
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Contemporary Black history.
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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.