Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Protests and Their Significance Today

ISBN-13: 9781594514593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Jean Van Delinder

Opis

There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that help us understand the beginnings of the civil rights struggle before it became a mass movement. She brings to light many important but largely forgotten events, such as the often overlooked 1950s Oklahoma sit-in protests that provided a model for the better-known Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. This book's significance lies in its challenge to perspectives that dominate scholarship on the civil rights movement. The broader concepts illustrated-including agency, culture, social structure, and situations-throughout this book open up substantially more of the complexity of the civil rights struggle. This book employs a methodology for analyzing not just the civil rights movement but other social movements and, indeed, social change in general.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments PART I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction PART II: Forgotten Civil Rights Activism Chapter 2: Before Brown: Protest and School Segregation in Kansas, 1880-1941 Chapter 3: "Invisibility Blues": Black Women and the Public Sphere in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1890-1910 Chapter 4: "Going Where We Could Not": Race, Gender, Class, and Religion in Merriam, Kansas, 1948-1949 Chapter 5: Behind the Brown Case, 1944-1954 Chapter 6: "Standing Up in the Heartland": The Oklahoma City Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, 1957-1964 PART III: Implications for the Analysis of Social Movements Chapter 7: Current Debates in Theories of Social Movements Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author

O autorze

Jean Van Delinder