Black Wilmington and the North Carolina way : portrait of a community in the era of civil rights protest / John L. Godwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godwin, John L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Wilmington (N.C.)--Race relations.

Wilmington (N.C.).

Wilmington (N.C.)--Social conditions--20th century.

North Carolina--Wilmington.

Physical Description:

407 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2000]

Contents:

Chapter 1 In the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Wilmington and North Carolina Civic Culture 13

Chapter 2 After the World Wars: The Early Civil Rights Movement 42

Chapter 3 The Era of Brown: Massive Resistance, Black Education, and Community Mobilization 79

Chapter 4 Entering the Mainstream: Civil Rights and the North Carolina Way 112

Chapter 5 The Trumpet Sounds: Community Crisis and The Civil Rights Movement 141

Chapter 6 The Walls Come Down: Political, Economic, and Cultural Transformation 173

Chapter 7 Taming a Whirlwind: Civil Rights Leadership and the Crisis of Community Transformation 212

Afterword: Coming of Age in a New Era of Conservatism 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-407).

ISBN:

0761816828

OCLC:

43648608