Charles H. Houston : an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.

Contributor:

Conyers, James L., Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History.

Civil rights movements.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This edited collection focuses on the philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of Charles H. Houston, a legal scholar activist who played an important role in the civil rights movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Charles Hamilton Houston: An Efficacious Reflexive Analysis

James L. Conyers, Jr.

Part I. Philosophical Foundations

Chapter 2: In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal

Derek W. Black

Chapter 3: "A Lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite to society"

John Brittain

Chapter 4: What the Right Learned from Charles Houston That the Left Did Not

Lewis R. Gordon

Part II. Constructive Engagement

Chapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the

Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Katherine Bankole Medina

Chapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority:

The Socio-Literary History of a Legal Warrior

Christel N. Temple

Part III. Enduring Contributions

Chapter 7: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle Against Lynching in the

United States, 1930-1939

Julius E. Thompson

Chapter 8: African American Voices Should Speak Loudly and Proudly to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Fundamentally Unfair Discrimination

L. Darnell Weeden

Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study

Cary D. Wintz

Chapter 10: Neo-Houstonian Studies: The Nation of Islam, Edward W. Jacko, Jr. and the Struggle for Afro-Muslim Civil Liberties

Malachi Crawford.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-20420-6

1-283-53897-0

9786613851420

0-7391-4360-3

OCLC:

810414709