Race work : the rise of civil rights in the urban West /

Tells the story of Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale, African American activists who led the movement to desegregate Phoenix, Arizona, in the years following World War II; and through the story of their efforts presents an account of white supremacy and black resistance in Phoenix.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Whitaker, Matthew C.
Format: Publication officielle Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Collection:Race and ethnicity in the American West.
Sujets:
Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, > 1926-1995.
Ragsdale, Eleanor Odell Dickey, > 1926-1998.
Ragsdale, Eleanor Odell Dickey, > 1926-1998
Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, > 1926-1995
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Arizona > Phoenix > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Arizona > Phoenix > History > 20th century.
African Americans in the professions > Arizona > Phoenix > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Arizona > Phoenix > Biography.
Noirs américains > Droits > Arizona > Phoenix > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Arizona > Phoenix > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans les professions libérales > Arizona > Phoenix > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains > Arizona > Phoenix > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African American civil rights workers
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans in the professions
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Ethnische Beziehungen
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Phoenix (Ariz.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Arizona > Phoenix
Phoenix, Ariz.
Schwärze
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • I: Power concedes nothing without demand
  • The black professional tradition
  • Tuskegee, World War II, and the new black activism
  • Mobilization, agitation, and protest
  • 2: Creative and persistent
  • Resistance and interracial dissent
  • The quickening
  • Black and Chicano leadership and the struggle for access and opportunity
  • 3: Moving forward counterclockwise
  • The struggle for racial equality in Phoenix, 1980-2000
  • Conclusion: racial uplift in Phoenix.

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