Rights for a season : the politics of race, class, and gender in Richmond, Virginia / Lewis A. Randolph and Gayle T. Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randolph, Lewis A.

Contributor:

Tate, Gayle T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia--Richmond--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Virginia--Richmond--Politics and government.

African Americans--Virginia--Richmond--Social conditions.

Civil rights movements--Virginia--Richmond--History.

Civil rights movements.

Social classes--Virginia--Richmond--History.

Social classes.

Sex role--Political aspects--Virginia--Richmond--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Political aspects.

History.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Richmond (Va.)--Race relations--Political aspects.

Richmond (Va.).

Richmond (Va.)--Politics and government.

Richmond (Va.)--Social conditions.

Virginia--Richmond.

Physical Description:

xix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003]

Summary:

Based on a historical analysis of the roots of Richmond's political evolution as well as on interviews and quantitative data, "Rights for a Season" places events in Richmond in a broader regional and national context of urban political development.

Contents:

Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives on Black Political Mobilization 1

1 "The Bitter Cup of Slavery": Construction of a Slave Society 40

2 "Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow" 73

3 Black Political Mobilization: The Byrd Era 111

4 The Civil Rights Movement in Richmond and the Structuring of Protest Activity 163

5 Black Political Restructuring and Reconstruction, 1965-1983 205

6 Demise of the Black Majority on the City Council 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-322) and index.

ISBN:

1572332247

OCLC:

50960818