Winston A. Grady-Willis

Challenging U.S. Apartheid

Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take centre stage alongside well-known figures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337911
• ISBN-10: 0822337916
• Artikelnr.: 21723361

Autorenporträt

Winston A. Grady-Willis

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix
Prologue xiii
Abbreviations xxiii
PART I: NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION
1. The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and Phase One of the Direct
Action Campaign 3
2. Phase Two of the Direct Action Campaign and the Fall of Petty Apartheid
in Atlanta 33
PART II: DEMANDING BLACK POWER
3. Bridges 59
4. The Atlanta Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 79
5. Neighborhood Protest and the Voices of the Black Working Poor 114
PART III: THE QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
6. Black Studies and the Birth of the Institute of the Black World 143
7. The Multi-front Black Struggle for Human Rights 169
Epilogue 206
Notes 213
Bibliography 265
Indez 281