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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Black Freedom Struggle"”.
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… was lynched. The mob was driven back, first by black deputies at the jail, then by armed African Americans who prevented their neighborhood from being torched. The National Guard occupied the city for five days. Black community leaders, certain that the girls' assailants were white, posted a …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
… connections between African liberation struggles and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States by concentrating on the ways in which American civil rights activists absorbed and utilized knowledge from anti-colonial movements. This dissertation focuses on the career of NAACP Field …
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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… rights movements through the examination of the black freedom struggle in Lexington, Kentucky. The geographical location of Lexington offers a unique perspective in civil rights movement activity, as the local movement was not distinctly northern or southern in character. This thesis functions as …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… strain of American cultural martyrdom I term “Black American martyrdom.” I trace the genealogy of Black American martyrdom from the 1830s, when martyrdom rhetoric flourished among the zealous Northeastern immediate abolitionists, to the 1960s, when Martin Luther King, Jr. influentially cast …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… middle-class masculinity, appropriated imaginary black masculinities into their lives and work. The dissertation demonstrates that during the civil rights era images of black men circulated widely in U.S. popular culture, in part because of the acceleration of the black freedom struggle. Media …
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Black Power and amidst a resurgence of national interest in African American grassroots political mobilizations under the Black Lives Matter umbrella, this dissertation argues for a reformulation of how we understand the history of the civil rights …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
… represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor whites, the PPC sought a broad coalition to travel to Washington, D.C., and …
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Taking the Moral Ground: Protestants, Feminists, and Gay Equality in North Carolina, 1970-1980
… Church. Emphasizing the importance of the black freedom struggle and a universal understanding of human rights to her ministry, this dissertation moves on to explore how the key tenets Murray championed—universal love and justice—played out as religious feminists fought for women’s equality …
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'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
<p>The US Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization of the Black Power Movement, a cultural and a political nationalist movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' anti-imperialist politics, militant visual style, grassroots …
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The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California
<p>It is often believed that the Black Power Movement started after civil rights/black power activist Stokely Carmichael declared, “We want Black Power” in Greenwood, Mississippi on June 16, 1966 and ended in the 1970s. Similar to the Civil Rights Movement the Black Power Movement is often examined …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
… and mixed-race people as they agitated for black inclusion in society and the polity on equal terms. This study contributes to that understanding by taking a broad view of both the African-American civil rights struggle and the paradoxical history of interracial marriage in the United States …
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
… to describe American race relations--either "black and white," or "Anglo and Mexican"--are examined contemporaneously, not comparatively, but in relation to one another? How do the long African American and Chicano/a struggles for racial equality and economic opportunity look different? And …