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Up south : civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia / Matthew J. Countryman.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F158.9.B53 C68 2006
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Van Pelt Library F158.9.N4 C68 2006
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Van Pelt Library F158.9.N4 C68 2006
By Request
Van Pelt Library F158.9.N4 C68 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Countryman, Matthew.
- Series:
- Politics and culture in modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Black power--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Black power.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- "Up South" documents the efforts of Philadelphia's Black Power activists to construct a vital and effective social movement combining analyses of racism with a program of grassroots community organizing in the context of the failure of civil rights liberalism to deliver on its promise of racial equality.
- Contents:
- I: Race, rights, and postwar liberalism
- Civil rights liberalism in Philadelphia
- The other Philadelphia story
- II: Northern protest movement
- Don't buy where you can't work
- A false democracy
- Black power and the organizing tradition
- III: Black power in the postindustrial city
- Community control of the schools
- The gender politics of movement leadership
- From protest to politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-404) and index.
- Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, 2006
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 081223894X
- OCLC:
- 60454759
- Publisher Number:
- 9780812238945
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