What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality

by Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz, Theda Skocpol

Book Overview

From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled churches as centers of black community life in cities, towns, and rural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138362
• ISBN13: 9780691138367
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"