How Long? How Long? : African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long?, How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the civil-rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile A...

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Main Author: Robnett, Belinda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781602562042
1602562040
0190283335
9780190283339
0199761698
9780199761692
1423741145
9781423741145
0198027443
9780198027447
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; ONE: Rethinking Social Movement Theory: Race, Class, Gender, and Culture; TWO: Exclusion, Empowerment, and Partnership: Race Gender Relations; THREE: Women and the Escalation of the Civil Rights Movement; FOUR: Sustaining the Momentum of the Movement; FIVE: Sowing the Seeds of Mass Mobilization; SIX: Bridging Students to the Movement; SEVEN: Race, Class, and Culture Matter; EIGHT: Bringing the Movement Home to Small Cities and Rural Communities; NINE: Cooperation and Conflict in the Civil Rights Movement; TEN: The Movement Unravels from the Bottom.