Widell, Robert W.
Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle
1. Introduction: “To Stay and Fight”: Birmingham’s Civil Rights Story and Twentieth-Century Black Protest
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Section I. Implementation
2. Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity
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3. Delay, Retaliation, and the Legal Process
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4. Staying Active and Branching Out
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Section II. Familiar Issues, New Directions
5. Poverty and Welfare Rights
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6. Community Health, Municipal Services, and Police Brutality
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Section III. A New “Civil Rights Unionism”
7. The Public Employees Organizing Committee
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Section IV. Black Power in the Deep South
8. The Emergence of the Alabama Black Liberation Front
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9. Black Power at the Local Level
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10. Repression and Backlash
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11. Conclusion: The “Long” Movement and the South
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Keywords: History, Social History, US History, Modern History, Cultural History, History of the Americas, Political History
- Author(s)
- Widell, Robert W.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Contemporary Black History
- Page amount
- 284 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137340962
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-46501-9