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"A comprehensive collection of essays and narratives."
--"Ebony"
"Readers will find this volume a helpful companion to capturing
an underexplored area of black activism from the slavery era to the
mid-twentieth century. These essays are especially helpful in
assessing the rural historical experiences of African Americans and
advancing our common historical understanding and knowledge on key
aspects of this element of the black experience."
-- "The Journal of Southern History""An exciting and much needed
anthology. Collectively, this astute selection of provocative
essays and the powerful introduction effectively challenge worn
frameworks and outmoded narratives of the civil rights movement.
Pushing the time line back to before the Civil War, Charles M.
Payne and Adam Green complicate our understanding of how everyday
people transformed their own lives and changed this nation's
history. This splendid volume is a vital contribution to African
American history and underscores the importance of dissent in
America."
--Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, "A Shining Thread of Hope: The
History of Black Women in America"
"The essays that make up "Time Longer Than Rope" skillfully
express the variety, depth, and resilience of African Americans'
resistance in the effort to achieve political freedom and greater
economic opportunities and to maintain viable intraracial community
associations to fight for equality. A useful tool that will
facilitate student awareness of the varied and long-term struggle
for black freedom in America."
--"The Journal of American History"
The story of the civil rights movement is well-known,
popularized by both the media and the academy. Yet the version of
the story recounted time and again by both history books and PBS
documentaries is a simplified one, reduced to an inspirational but
ultimately facile narrative framed around Dr. King, the Kennedys,
and the redemptive days of Montgomery and Memphis, in which black
individuals become the rescued survivors. This story renders the
mass of black people invisible, refusing to take seriously everyday
people whose years of persistent struggle often made the big events
possible.
Time Longer than Rope unearths the ordinary roots of
extraordinary change, demonstrating the depth and breadth of black
oppositional spirit and activity that preceded the civil rights
movement. The diversity of activism covered by this collection
extends from tenant farmers' labor reform campaign in the 1919
Elaine, Arkansas massacre to Harry T. Moore's leadership of a
movement that registered 100,000 black Floridians years before
Montgomery, and from women's participation in the Garvey movement
to the changing meaning of the Lincoln Memorial. Concentrating on
activist efforts in the South, key themes emerge, including the
underappreciated importance of historical memory and community
building, the divisive impact of class and sexism, and the shifting
interplay between individual initiative and structural
constraints.
More than simply illuminating a hitherto marginalized fragment
of American history, Time Longer than Rope provides a crucial
pre-history of the modern civil rights movement. In the process, it
alters our entire understanding of African American activism and
the very meaning of "civil rights."
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