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A groundbreaking collection of essays on the civil rights movement focusing on smaller, regional civil organizations across the country - not just in the South. Over the last several years, the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon, organized primarily by male leaders, that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has been complicated by studies that root the movement in smaller communities across the country. These local movements had varying agendas and organizational development, geared to the particular circumstances, resources, and regions in which they operated. Local civil rights activists frequently worked in tandem with the national civil rights movement but often functioned autonomously from—and sometimes even at odds with—the national movement. Together, the pathbreaking essays in **Groundwork** teach us that local civil rights activity was a vibrant component of the larger civil rights movement, and contributed greatly to its national successes. Individually, the pieces offer dramatic new insights about the civil rights movement, such as the fact that a militant black y

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Author

Jeanne Theoharis (editor); Komozi Woodard (editor); Charles M. Payne (editor)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814782859

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Biography