Courage to dissent : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement / Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation--Law and legislation--Georgia--Atlanta--History.

Segregation.

Segregation--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta--History.

Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (603 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction against centuries of racial discrimination. In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940's through 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that the movement featured a vast array of activists and many sophisticated approaches to activism. Long before ""black power"" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a new name, African Americans in Atlanta debated the meaning of equality and the step

Contents:

pt. 1. A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era

"Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism

The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957

Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959

"Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958

More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959

pt. 2. The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960s

Seeking redress in the streets : the student movment's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961

A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964

Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964

"New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967

pt. 3. Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle

A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971

An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974

"Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-025972-8

1-282-97778-4

9786612977787

0-19-975060-2

OCLC:

702135102

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31503 hdl