Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle
By: Robert W. Widell, Jr
Series: Contemporary Black History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781137340955
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: African Americans; Civil rights; History; Civil rights movements; Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "To stay and fight" : Birmingham's civil rights story and twentieth century black protest; title: Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity; title: Delay, retaliation, and the legal process; title: Staying active and branching out; title: The Poor People's Campaign and welfare rights; title: Community health, municipal services, and police brutality; title: The Public Employees Organizing Committee; title: Origins of the Alabama Black Liberation Front; title: Black power at the local level; title: Repression and backlash; title: The "long" movement and the South.