Agitations
Subtitle: ideologies and strategies in African American politics
By: Kevin R. Anderson.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781557289261
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- Philosophy; Political science -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: Though the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were unified in their common idea of resistance to oppression, these groups fought their battles on multiple fronts. The NAACP filed lawsuits and aggressively lobbied Congress and state legislatures, while Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC challenged the racial status quo through nonviolent mass action, and the SNCC focused on community empowerment activities. In Agitations, Kevin Anderson studies these various activities in order to trace the ideological foundations of these groups and to understand how diversity among African Americans created multiple political strategies. Agitations goes beyond the traditionally acknowledged divide between integrationist and accommodationist wings of African American politics to explore the diverse fundamental ideologies and strategic outcomes among African American activists that still define, influence, and complicate political life today. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agitations : African American ideology in action; title: Counted but not heard : the evolutionary context of African American political thought; title: An identity crisis : the ideological foundation of the NAACP; title: Ministers in Black : the ideological origins of grassroots civil rights protest; title: Sitting down to stand up : ideology and the creation of SNCC; title: Agitations : freedom and the future.