Title: Redefining the color line
Description: "Early civil-rights scholarship focused almost exclusively on the role played by national civil rights organizations between 1955 and 1965. John Kirk argues that only by understanding the groundwork laid by black activists at the grassroots level in the 1940s and 1950s can we fully understand the significance of later protests.

Moreover, Kirk shows that local-level black activists and black organizations were not homogeneous, but differed significantly in their goals and strategies, thereby adding a multidimensional facet to a complex struggle that was more than just white against black.".

"Drawing upon oral history interviews and new material garnered from activists' privately owned collections, as well as extensive documentation from local, state, regional, and national public archives, Redefining the Color Line charts new territory in the study of the Little Rock school crisis and forces a reevaluation of that familiar event and its place in the history of the civil rights struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, African American political activists, African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Politics and government, Race relations, School integration, Segregation, Rassenunruhen, Segregation en education, Mensenrechten, Noirs americains, Geschichte 1940-1970, Rassendiscriminatie, Politique et gouvernement, Integration scolaire, Negers, Activisme, African americans, civil rights, African americans, segregation, African americans, arkansas, Arkansas, politics and government, Civil rights movements, united states
Places: Arkansas, Little Rock, Little Rock (Ark.)
Time periods: 20th century