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Online-Ressource (369 p)
ISBN:
9780814743317
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Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association Early in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black, independent political party called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). The group, whose ballot symbol was a snarling black panther, was formed in part to protest the barriers to black enfranchisement that had for decades kept every single African American of voting age off the county's regis
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Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Conditions Unfavorable to the Rise of the Negro: The Pursuit of Freedom Rights before the Civil Rights Era; 2 I Didn't Come Here to Knock: The Making of a Grassroots Social Movement; 3 We Ain't Going to Shed a Tear for Jon: School Desegregation, White Resistance, and the African American Response; 4 I'm Going to Try to Take Some of the Freedom Here Back Home: The Federal Government and the Fight for Freedom Rights
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5 We Gonna Show Alabama Just How Bad We Are: The Birth of the Original Black Panther Party and the Development of Freedom Politics6 Tax the Rich to Feed the Poor: Black Power and the Election of 1966; 7 Now Is the Time for Work to Begin: Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Epilogue: That Black Dirt Gets in Your Soul: The Fight for Freedom Rights in the Days Ahead; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814743652
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814743317
Additional Edition:
Print version Bloody Lowndes : Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt
Language:
English
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