O'Dell, Jack <br/><br/>
Climbing Jacob's ladder :  the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell / 
edited and introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2010. 
 - viii, 319 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520259584 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009009144 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.<br/>Civil rights movements--History.--United States<br/>African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.61  / .O29 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.1196/073