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An essential examination of black youth activism since the passage
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act What happened to black youth in the
post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally
around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the
Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights
groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad
view of black youth and social movement activism. Based on both
research from a diverse collection of archives and interviews with
youth activists, advocates, and grassroots organizers, this book
examines popular mobilization among the generation of
activists—principally black students, youth, and young
adults—who came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Franklin argues that the
political environment in the post-Civil Rights era, along with
constraints on social activism, made it particularly difficult for
young black activists to start and sustain popular mobilization
campaigns. Building on case studies from around the
country—including New York, the Carolinas, California, Louisiana,
and Baltimore—After the Rebellion explores the inner workings and
end results of activist groups such as the Southern Negro Youth
Congress, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Student
Organization for Black Unity, the Free South Africa Campaign, the
New Haven Youth Movement, the Black Student Leadership Network, the
Juvenile Justice Reform Movement, and the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer
campaign. Franklin demonstrates how youth-based movements and
intergenerational campaigns have attempted to circumvent modern
constraints, providing insight into how the very inner workings of
these organizations have and have not been effective in creating
change and involving youth. A powerful work of both historical and
political analysis, After the Rebellion provides a vivid
explanation of what happened to the militant impulse of young
people since the demobilization of the civil rights and black power
movements—a discussion with great implications for the study of
generational politics, racial and black politics, and social
movements.
Tennessee has made tremendous strides in race relations since the
end of de jure segregation. African Americans are routinely elected
and appointed to state and local offices, the black vote has
tremendous sway in statewide elections, and legally explicit forms
of racial segregation have been outlawed. Yet the idea of
transforming Tennessee into a racially equitable state-a notion
that was central to the black freedom movement during the
antebellum and Jim Crow periods-remains elusive for many African
Americans in Tennessee, especially those living in the most
underresourced and economically distressed communities. Losing
Power investigates the complex relationship between racial
polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions
in Tennessee in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Sekou
M. Franklin and Ray Block examine the divide in values,
preferences, and voting behaviors between blacks and whites,
contending that this racial divide is both one of the causes and
one of the consequences of black Tennesseans' recent loss of
political power. Tennessee has historically been considered more
politically moderate and less racially conservative than the states
of the Deep South. Yet in recent years and particularly since the
mid- 2000s, Republicans have cemented their influence in the state.
While Franklin and Block's analysis and methodology focus on state
elections, political institutions, and public policy, Franklin and
Block have also developed a conceptual framework for racial
politics that goes beyond voting patterns to include elite-level
discourse (issue framing), intrastate geographical divisions,
social movements, and pressure from interest groups.
Tennessee has made tremendous strides in race relations since the
end of de jure segregation. African Americans are routinely elected
and appointed to state and local offices, the black vote has
tremendous sway in statewide elections, and legally explicit forms
of racial segregation have been outlawed. Yet the idea of
transforming Tennessee into a racially equitable state-a notion
that was central to the black freedom movement during the
antebellum and Jim Crow periods-remains elusive for many African
Americans in Tennessee, especially those living in the most
underresourced and economically distressed communities. Losing
Power investigates the complex relationship between racial
polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions
in Tennessee in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Sekou
M. Franklin and Ray Block examine the divide in values,
preferences, and voting behaviors between blacks and whites,
contending that this racial divide is both one of the causes and
one of the consequences of black Tennesseans' recent loss of
political power. Tennessee has historically been considered more
politically moderate and less racially conservative than the states
of the Deep South. Yet in recent years and particularly since the
mid- 2000s, Republicans have cemented their influence in the state.
While Franklin and Block's analysis and methodology focus on state
elections, political institutions, and public policy, Franklin and
Block have also developed a conceptual framework for racial
politics that goes beyond voting patterns to include elite-level
discourse (issue framing), intrastate geographical divisions,
social movements, and pressure from interest groups.
An essential examination of black youth activism since the passage
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act What happened to black youth in the
post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally
around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the
Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights
groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad
view of black youth and social movement activism. Based on both
research from a diverse collection of archives and interviews with
youth activists, advocates, and grassroots organizers, this book
examines popular mobilization among the generation of
activists-principally black students, youth, and young adults-who
came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965. Franklin argues that the political
environment in the post-Civil Rights era, along with constraints on
social activism, made it particularly difficult for young black
activists to start and sustain popular mobilization campaigns.
Building on case studies from around the country-including New
York, the Carolinas, California, Louisiana, and Baltimore-After the
Rebellion explores the inner workings and end results of activist
groups such as the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Student Organization for
Black Unity, the Free South Africa Campaign, the New Haven Youth
Movement, the Black Student Leadership Network, the Juvenile
Justice Reform Movement, and the AFL-CIO's Union Summer campaign.
Franklin demonstrates how youth-based movements and
intergenerational campaigns have attempted to circumvent modern
constraints, providing insight into how the very inner workings of
these organizations have and have not been effective in creating
change and involving youth. A powerful work of both historical and
political analysis, After the Rebellion provides a vivid
explanation of what happened to the militant impulse of young
people since the demobilization of the civil rights and black power
movements-a discussion with great implications for the study of
generational politics, racial and black politics, and social
movements.
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