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What a mighty power we can be : African American fraternal groups and the struggle for racial equality / Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz.
LIBRA E185.61 .S616 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skocpol, Theda.
- Series:
- Princeton studies in American politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- African American fraternal organizations--History.
- African American fraternal organizations.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Societies, etc.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Societies, etc--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- African American fraternalism : a missing chapter in the story of U.S. civic democracy
- The panorama of African American fraternal federations / with the assistance of Jennifer Lynn Oser
- African American fraternals as schools for democracy
- Proprietors, helpmates, and pilgrims in black and white fraternal rituals / by Bayliss Camp and Orit Kent
- Defending the legal right to organize
- Black fraternalists and the mid-twentieth-century movement for civil rights
- The achievements of African American fraternalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691122997
- OCLC:
- 63178289
- Publisher Number:
- 9780691122991
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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