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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Skocpol, Theda (Auteur), Liazos, Ariane, 1976- (Auteur), Ganz, Marshall, 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Collection:Princeton studies in American politics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.