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The economic civil rights movement African Americans and the struggle for economic power
Title:
The economic civil rights movement African Americans and the struggle for economic power
Author:
Ezra, Michael, 1972-
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description:
vi, 213 p.
Series:
Routledge studies in African American history ; 1
Contents:
A. Philip Randolph, early pioneer : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, National Negro Congress, and the March on Washington movement / Rhonda Jones -- Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women, and the prewar push for equal opportunity in defense projects / gloria-yvonne -- The Brooklyn Urban League and Equal Employment Opportunity in New York's war industries / Carla J. DuBose -- Early economic civil rights in Washington, DC : the new Negro Alliance, Howard University, and the Interracial Workshop / Derek Charles Catsam -- The moral economy of postwar radical interracial summer camping / Orion A. Teal -- The NAACP boycott of the Amos 'n' Andy Show / Justin T. Lorts -- Economic civil rights activism in Pensacola, Florida / J. Michael Butler -- Muhammad Ali's main bout : African American economic power and the World Heavyweight Title / Michael Ezra -- Operation Breadbasket in Chicago : between civil rights and black capitalism / Enrico Beltramini -- Progress Plaza : Leon Sullivan, Zion investment associates, and black power in a Philadelphia shopping center / Stephanie Dyer -- Black power on the factory floor / Kieran W. Taylor -- Acquiring "a piece of the action" : the rise and fall of the black capitalism movement / Ibram H. Rogers -- Soul City, North Carolina and the business of black power / Christopher B. Strain.
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