Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Papers of the NAACP: The NAACP and labor, 1940-1955. ser. A. Subject files on labor conditions and employment discrimination, 1940-1955 (21 reels) ; ser. B. Cooperation with organized labor, 1940-1955 (25 reels) ; ser. C. Legal Department files on labor, 1940-1955 (12 reels) ; pt.13, suppl. 1956-1965 (16 reels)
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Papers of the NAACP, Part 13
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Papers of the NAACP.
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Black Studies Research Sources ... Papers of the NAACP, Part 19, Youth File, Series B, 1940-1955, American Jewish Congress--motion Picture Project, Edited by John H. Bracey, Jr. and August Meier, Project Coordinator, Randolph Boehm
Author: The Highlander Folk School
Author: Aimee Isgrig HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book reviews the history of the Highlander Folk School (Summerfield, Tennessee) and describes school programs that were developed to support Black and White southerners involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School was a small, residential adult education institution founded in 1932. The first section of the book provides background information on Myles Horton, the founder of the school, and on circumstances that led him to establish the school. Horton's experience growing up in the South, as well as his educational experience as a sociology and theology student, served to strengthen his dedication to democratic social change through education. The next four sections of the book describe the programs developed during the school's 30-year history, including educational programs for the unemployed and impoverished residents of Cumberland Mountain during the Great Depression; for new leaders in the southern industrial union movement during its critical period; for groups of small farmers when the National Farmers Union sought to organize in the South; and for adult and student leadership in the emerging civil rights movement. Horton's pragmatic leadership allowed educational programs to evolve in order to meet community needs. For example, Highlander's civil rights programs began with a workshop on school desegregation and evolved more broadly to prepare volunteers from civil rights groups to teach "citizenship schools," where Blacks could learn basic literacy skills needed to pass voter registration tests. Beginning in 1958, and until the school's charter was revoked and its property confiscated by the State of Tennessee in 1961, the school was under mounting attacks by highly-placed government leaders and others because of its support of the growing civil rights movement. Contains 270 references, chapter notes, and an index. (LP)
Rosie the Riveter Revisited
Author: Sherna Berger GluckPublisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The women who tell their stories in this extraordinary oral history worked in World War II defense plants.
Upheaval in the Quiet Zone
Author: Leon FinkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
MultiCultural Review
Author: At the Dark End of the Street
Author: Danielle L. McGuirePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307389243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer—Rosa Parks—to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.