Freedom rights
Subtitle: new perspectives on the civil rights movement
By: edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813134482; 9780813134499
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights movements; African Americans; Civil rights; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson; title: Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts; title: The Young Women's Christian Association's multiracial activism in the immediate postwar era / Abigail Sara Lewis; title: James and Esther Cooper Jackson, communism, and the 1950s black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland; title: Till they come back home : transregional families and the politicization of the till generation / Krystal D. Frazier, Stacy Braukman; title: Joan Little and the triumph of testimony / Danielle L. McGuire; title: Gender, jazz, and justice in cold war freedom movements / Jacqueline Castledine; title: EEOC politics and limits on Reagan's civil rights legacy / Emily Zuckerman; title: Race and partisanship in criminal disfranchisement laws / Pippa Holloway; title: "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; title: "I want my country back, I want my dream back" : Barack Obama and the appeal of postracial fictions / Brian Ward.