Title: The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement /
Authors: Street, Joe.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2007
Subjects: African Americans Civil rights History; Civil rights movements United States History; African Americans in popular culture History; African Americans Race identity; Popular culture United States History; United States Race relations History
Abstract: From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. In this book, Joe Street argues that the time has come to recognize the extent to which African American history and culture were vital elements of the movement.Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from the Free Southern Theater to freedom songs, from the Cuban radio broadcasts of Robert F. Williams to the art of the Black Panther Party, Street encourages us to consider the breadth of forces brought to bear as weapons in the struggle for civil rights. Doing so also allows us to reconsider the roots of Black Power, recognizing that it emerged both from within and as a critique of the southern integrationist movement. -- from back cover.
Contents: Singing for freedom -- Cultural organizing in the Integrationist Movement, 1961-1964 -- Jazz and radical politics, 1960-1964 -- The 1964 Mississippi Summer Project -- Integrationist cultural organizing in the Black power era, 1965-1969 -- Black cultural nationalism, 1965-1969 -- African American culture in the Civil Rights Movement.