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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Freedom Struggle"”.
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… memory of Kansas's accomplishments in the Black Freedom Struggle (black Civil War regiments, the Coffeyville resistance, and Wichita lunch counter sit-ins) have largely vanished. If not for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, there would be no memory at all. "Ignore that man behind the …
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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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Women in the Black Panthers: Building or Departing from Traditions of Activism in the Freedom Struggle
… broader historical context of blackwomen in the freedom struggle. This thesis sheds light on the continuities anddepartures from earlier work that characterized black women's activism and theBlack Panther Party as a whole, by analyzing how their experiences, ideologies,and activism compared with …
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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… 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 an …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
… 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 pressure the …
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'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
… central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' anti-imperialist politics, militant visual style, grassroots strategies, and community programs appealed within and beyond the United States. Between 1967 and 1972, people of color struggling under class and …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… the dimensions and voices of the long Black freedom struggle. The story that emerges is one of deep creative agency among racial justice activists, and analysis of the rhetoric of martyrdom within this activism provides new ways of examining questions of identity, race, citizenship and …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… in part because of the acceleration of the black freedom struggle. Media depictions of black men engaging in struggles for civil rights, integration, self-determination, and the end of white supremacy highlighted their rebelliousness, strength, freedom, and power. In this same moment, many white …
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Art Fronts: Visual Culture and Race Politics in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
… and understudied role in the African American freedom struggle in the middle part of the twentieth century. In particular, it traces the political lives and cultural productions of a generation of visual artists, both black and white, who seized on the Depression-era ethos of art as a weapon to …
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
… a more usable history for ongoing liberation struggles. It first argues that though it was politically valuable to the civil rights establishment to align itself with mainstream white liberals in the national politics, in media, and in the public sphere, this civil rights liberal alliance …
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"Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom": Women and the struggle for black equality in Louisiana
… of female civil rights activists in the black struggle for equality in Louisiana. Drawing on the fields of history, sociology, political science, and gender studies, this project demonstrates that women were indispensable figures in the freedom struggle in Louisiana throughout the twentieth …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
… view of both the African-American civil rights struggle and the paradoxical history of interracial marriage in the United States between 1833 and 2000. It divides that one hundred sixty-seven-year span into five periods of struggle (with occasional overlap) and focuses on those organizations …
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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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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY : ERASING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST
… writers, I have illuminated their role in the freedom struggle. In my final chapter, by focusing on new trends in writing, I have established that the so-called boundaries between the East and the West, have today been significantly reduced. All this has been possible with adaptation on either …
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The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California
… people. It is just one element of the Black Freedom Struggle. Black Power uses many methods to liberate Black people from oppression. It shares some of the same methods and goals with the Civil Rights Movement. However, there is one major difference. Unlike the nonviolent struggle for civil …
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
… How do the long African American and Chicano/a struggles for racial equality and economic opportunity look different? And what role did ordinary people play in shaping these movements? Using oral history interviews, the Texas Labor Archives, and the papers of dozens of black, brown, and white …