A Pledge with Purpose : Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality /
"'A Pledge with Purpose' explores Black sororities and fraternities and the role(s) that they play in the fight for equality."--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : Black Greek "racial uplift"
- The preconditions for uplift (1865-1905)
- The genesis of Black Greek-letter organizations (1906-1922)
- Finding their way : Black and Greek in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, the Roaring Twenties, and the adolescence of Jim Crow (1923-1929)
- Black Greek-letter organizations as social welfare nets (1930-1939)
- Spreading the word : Black Greek-letter organizations, democracy, and the Great Migration (1940-1948)
- At the forefront : Civil rights and social change (1949-1963)
- Conclusion : Where to now? The future of Black Greek racial uplift
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the authors..