This work examines how the civil rights movement crystallised views
of citizenship as a grassroots-level, collective endeavour and of
self-respect as a formidable political tool. Drawing on both oral
and written sources, the book shows how rank-and-file movement
particiants defined and discussed such concepts as rights,
equality, justice and, in particular, freedom, and how such key
movement leaders as Martin Luther King Jr, Ella Baker, Stokely
Carmichael and James Forman were attuned to this ""freedom talk"".
The book includes chapters on the concept of freedom in its many
varieties, both individual and collective; on self-interest and
self-respect; on Martin Luther King's use of the idea of freedom;
and on the intellectual evolution of the Student Non-violent
Co-ordinating committee, especially in light of Frantz Fanon's
thought among movement radicals. In demonstrating that
self-respect, self-determination, and solidarity were as central to
the goals of the movement as the dismantling of the Jim Crow
system, King argues that the movement's success should not be
measured in terms of tangible, quantifiable advances alone, such as
voter registration increases or improved standards of living. Not
only has the civil rights movement helped strengthen the meaning
and political importance of active citizenship in the cotemporary
world, says King, but what was a political goal became the impetus
for the academic and intellectual rediscovery of the Afro-American
cultural and historical experience.
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