V.P. Franklin

The Young Crusaders

The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

"Filling a gap in the scholarship of American history, V. P. Franklin crafts the first full-length history of the children and teen activists who participated in and led key protests during the Civil Rights Movement"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780807055434
• ISBN-10: 0807055433
• Artikelnr.: 61801619

Autorenporträt

V. P. Franklin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Education at the University of California, Riverside. He has served as the Editor of The Journal of African American History (2001-2018) and is the author of books including Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African American Intellectual Tradition, and co-author of My Soul Is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1965.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Children and Teenagers: Foot Soldiers for Democracy
PART I: Freedom on Their Minds
CHAPTER 1
Youth and Civil Rights Activism Before the Brown Decision
CHAPTER 2
Grace Under Pressure: Children, Teenagers, and School Desegregation
CHAPTER 3
High School Students and Nonviolent Direct-Action Protests
CHAPTER 4
The Birmingham Children’s Crusade and Southern Student Activism
PART II: The Quality Integrated Education Movement
CHAPTER 5
Freedom Day Boycotts: Chicago, Boston, and New York City
CHAPTER 6
Every Child a Freedom Soldier: Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Mississippi
PART III: From Civil Rights to Black Power
CHAPTER 7
Police Brutality, Black Self-Defense, and Student Activism
CHAPTER 8
Civil Rights, Black Power, and Increasing Youth Militancy
EPILOGUE
“Keep Stirring Up ‘Good Trouble’”
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Notes
Index