Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

by Komozi Woodard and Charles M. Payne

Book Overview

Pathbreaking essays on the power of local activism on the broader Civil Rights movement

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782841
• ISBN13: 9780814782842
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"