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This volume expands the chronology and geography of the black
freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the old South
and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the
nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from southern,
northern, and border states, these essays incorporate communities
and topics not usually linked to the African American civil rights
movement. Contributors highlight little-known race riots in
northern cities, the work of black women who defied local
governments to provide medical care to their communities, and the
national Food for Freedom campaign of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. Moving to recent issues such as Ferguson,
Sandra Bland, and Black Lives Matter, these chapters connect the
activism of today to a deeply historical, wide-ranging fight for
equality.
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Walker County (Hardcover)
Jeffrey L Littlejohn, The Walker County Historical Commission
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This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of
the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the
Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as
far back as the nineteenth century, and analyzing case studies from
southern, northern, and border states, the essays in The Seedtime,
the Work, and the Harvest incorporate communities and topics not
usually linked to the African American civil rights movement. The
collection opens with a biographical sketch of Thomas DeSaille
Tucker, an educational pioneer who served as the first president of
Florida State Normal and Industrial School for Colored Students. It
then highlights the work of black women, including Bostonian
publisher Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who defied local governments
during the Progressive Era by disseminating medical information and
providing access to medical professionals. Next, the collection
explores the life and work of Norfolk civil rights attorney James
F. Gay, who helped to democratize the political establishment in
Virginia's largest city but became a victim of his own success. The
collection then moves to York, Pennsylvania, to examine a 1969 riot
that went mostly unnoticed until the town's mayor was charged-more
than thirty years later-with the riot-related murder of Lillie
Belle Allen. Also featured is an essay examining the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's "Food for Freedom" campaign
that aimed to complement voter registration work in Mississippi by
providing everyday sustenance to African Americans. Addressing more
recent issues, this volume considers the politics of public memory
in Baltimore, Maryland, a city divided by racial "riots" in 1968
and in 2015. It then examines the Black Lives Matter movement that
gained international attention for its response to Michael Brown's
death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the
Sandra Bland Movement inspired by the arrest of Bland and her
subsequent death in the Waller County jail in rural Texas. These
chapters connect the activism of today-shaped in so many ways by
social media, student activism, and grassroots organization-to a
deeply historical, wide-ranging fight for equality.A volume in the
series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M.
Miller
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