Civil rights history from the ground up : local struggles, a national movement /

Civil rights history from the ground up : local struggles, a national movement / edited by Emilye Crosby.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Crosby, Emilye
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
United States > Race relations.
United States > History, Local.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Local studies as case studies. Local people and national leaders : the view from Mississippi / John Dittmer
  • Challenging the civil rights narrative : women, gender, and the "politics of protection" / Laurie B. Green
  • Finding Fannie Corbett : black women and the transformation of civil rights narratives in Wilson, North Carolina / Charles W. McKinney, Jr.
  • The 1968 Poor People's Campaign, Marks, Mississippi, and the mule train : fighting poverty locally, representing poverty nationally / Amy Nathan Wright
  • Part two: From local studies to synthesis. Focusing our eyes on the prize : how community studies are reframing and rewriting the history of the Civil Rights Movement / J. Todd Moye
  • Freedom now : nonviolence in the southern Freedom Movement 1960-1964 / Wesley Hogan
  • "It wasn't the Wild West" : keeping local studies in self-defense historiography / Emilye Crosby
  • Part three: Creating and communicating movement history : methodology and theory. Remaking history : Barack Obama, political cartoons, and the Civil Rights Movement / Hasan Kwame Jeffries
  • Making "Eyes on the Prize" : an interview with filmmaker and SNCC staffer Judy Richardson / Emily Crosbye, interviewer and editor
  • "Sexism is a helluva thing" : rethinking our questions and assumptions / Charles M. Payne
  • Telling freedom stories from the inside out : internal politics and movement cultures in SNCC and the Black Panther Party / Robyn C. Spencer and Wesley Hogan
  • That movement responsibility : an interview with Judy Richardson on movement values and movement history / Emily Crosbye, interviewer and editor
  • Accidental matriarchs and beautiful helpmates : Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and the memorialization of the Civil Rights Movement / Jeanne Theoharis
  • Why study the Movement? A conversation on movement values and movement history / Charles M. Payne
  • Conclusion. "Doesn't everyone want to grow up to be Ella Baker?" : teaching movement history / Emily Crosbye.

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