What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality /
"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, Afri...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2006]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- African American fraternalism : a missing chapter in the story of U.S. civic democracy
- The panorama of African American fraternal federations / with the assistance of Jennifer Lynn Oser
- African American fraternals as schools for democracy
- Proprietors, helpmates, and pilgrims in black and white fraternal rituals / by Bayliss Camp and Orit Kent
- Defending the legal right to organize
- Black fraternalists and the mid-twentieth-century movement for civil rights
- The achievements of African American fraternalism.