Struggles before Brown : early civil rights protests and their significance today / Jean Van Delinder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Delinder, Jean, 1956-

Series:

Advancing the sociological imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History.

Civil rights movements.

Race relations.

Kansas--Race relations--History.

Kansas.

Oklahoma--Race relations--History.

Oklahoma.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 197 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Contents:

The "Master Narrative" and Civil Rights Protest 6

From Master Narrative to Border Campaign: Employing Ideal Types 7

Border Campaign, Ideal Types, and Interpretive Analysis 11

Social Action and Racial Segregation 20

Part II Forgotten Civil Rights Activism

2 Before Brown: Protest and School Segregation in Kansas, 1880-1941 29

The "Black Bourgeoisie" and Racial Segregation 31

"Along the Color Line" 33

School Segregation in Kansas, 1861-1879 34

Challenges to Contingencies 44

Conclusion: Tentative Beginnings 47

3 "Invisibility Blues": Black Women and the Public Sphere in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1890-1910 57

Race, Gender, and Women's Historical Agency 58

Race, Gender, Class, and Activism in Oklahoma 60

The Public Library Movement and Racial Segregation 63

Judith Carter Horton and the Founding of Guthrie's Excelsior Library 64

Conclusion: Race, Class, Gender, and the Civil Rights Movement 67

4 "Going Where We Could Not": Race, Gender, Class, and Religion in Merriam, Kansas, 1948-1949 71

Border Campaign: Time, Place, and Rhythm of Action 72

Career Activist 74

De Facto School Segregation in South Park 75

Walker Walk Outs 81

Race, Gender, Class, and Religion: Jews and Civil Rights Struggles 83

Conclusion: Career Activism and Social Movements 87

5 Behind the Brown Case, 1944-1954 97

Rising Expectations and Social Unrest 99

Challenges to Segregated Public Accommodations, 1944-1948 101

"Separate Schools Are Here to Stay": Challenges to Elementary School Segregation in Topeka, 1948-1950 102

The Brown "Story" 105

Conclusion: Local Initiatives in Social Movement 110

6 "Standing Up in the Heartland": The Oklahoma City Lunch Counter Sit-Ins 1957-1964 115

Economic Boycotts and the Rise of Consumer Society 117

Gender, Leadership, and Innovative Organizational Tactics 120

Racial Segregation in 1950s Oklahoma City 123

Conclusion: Master Narrative and Border Campaign Analyses of Social Movements 126

Part III Implications for the Analysis of Social Movements

7 Current Debates in Theories of Social Movements 133

Race and the Sociological Imagination 133

"The Personal Is Political" 134

Culture and Social Movements 136

Agency, Structure, and Social Theory 137

Preexisting Protest Traditions 138

The Historical Situation 140

Civil Rights Leadership and Collective Action 142

Postmodern Social Action and the Case of the Career Activist 144

The Border Campaign Type 148

Hypothesized Causes and Effects of Border Campaign Tendencies 153

Directions for Research: Montgomery and Birmingham Reconsidered 155

What Happened to Brown? 161

Post-Brown Challenges in Topeka 163

Conclusion: Future Directions for Social Movement Research 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781594514586

1594514585

9781594514593

1594514593

OCLC:

181368749