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Climbing Jacob's ladder : the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell / edited and introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: viii, 319 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520259584 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/073 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .O29 2010
Contents:
Pt. 1 : Tracing the Freedomway. Report on voter registration work, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Foundations of racism in American life ; Editorial, Freedomways special issue on Mississippi ; The threshold of a new reconstruction ; A colonized people ; The July rebellions and the "military state" ; Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the life and times of the freedom movement ; Charleston's legacy to the poor people's campaign ; Report of the acting executive director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; A rock in a weary lan' : Paul Robeson's leadership and "the movement" in the decade before Montgomery ; An assessment : push's first five years and its next five ; On the transition from civil rights to civil equality ; The rainbow coalition : organizational principles -- Pt. 2 : Contemporary reflections ; Democracy charter ; Reclaiming the second reconstruction: democracy, class, and the social transformation of the United States.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1 : Tracing the Freedomway. Report on voter registration work, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Foundations of racism in American life ; Editorial, Freedomways special issue on Mississippi ; The threshold of a new reconstruction ; A colonized people ; The July rebellions and the "military state" ; Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the life and times of the freedom movement ; Charleston's legacy to the poor people's campaign ; Report of the acting executive director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; A rock in a weary lan' : Paul Robeson's leadership and "the movement" in the decade before Montgomery ; An assessment : push's first five years and its next five ; On the transition from civil rights to civil equality ; The rainbow coalition : organizational principles -- Pt. 2 : Contemporary reflections ; Democracy charter ; Reclaiming the second reconstruction: democracy, class, and the social transformation of the United States.

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