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Democracy Rising : South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865.
Title:
Democracy Rising : South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality since 1865.
Author:
Lau, Peter F.
ISBN:
9780813159126
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Series:
Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics of Civil Rights Struggle -- 1 Segregation and Self-Determination: The Making of the NAACP -- The "Dixie District" and the Remaking of the NAACP -- The Past Meets the Present in Columbia -- The Past Meets the Present in Charleston -- 2 Riot and Reaction: The Lineaments of Reinvention -- Riot and Reaction -- Migration, the UNIA, and the Unmaking of the NAACP -- John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie and the Lineaments of Reinvention -- 3 Radicalism and Liberal Reform: The NAACP during the New Deal -- The NAACP's Second Amenia Conference and the Radical Challenge -- The Greenville County Council for Community Development and Liberal Reform -- The NAACP in Greenville: Black Voting Rights and Gendered Strife -- 4 Civil Rights and Collective Action: The Battle for Black Empowerment -- Levi G. Byrd: Toward a Politics of Interdependence -- The NAACP State Conference of Branches and the Struggle for Group Recognition -- The Progressive Democratic Party and the Fight for Black Empowerment -- 5 Popular Fronts: From New Deal Coalition to Black Rights Revolution -- "We Shall Overcome"?: Black Tobacco Workers Strike American Tobacco Co. -- The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the 1946 Columbia Youth Legislature -- NAACP Revivalism and the Expanding Civil Rights Insurgency -- 6 Cold War Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education and the Emerging Powerof the Periphery -- From Clarendon County to Brown v. Board of Education -- Toward a New Beginning? -- Conclusion: Movement, Memory, and American Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
A comprehensive history of the African American fight for racial equality from the standpoint of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, Democracy Rising examines the struggle from the end of the Civil War through the modern civil rights movement of the 1960s. In an effort to broaden our understanding of civil rights and democracy in America, Peter F. Lau describes how conflicts born of the state's history of racial exclusion and discrimination continue to shape the social problems and promises of our time. At the center of the book is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Lau focuses on the interplay between the national organization and its local affiliates, demonstrating the impact each had on the other in shaping the outcome of grassroots social and political change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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