Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power : interracial solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left organizing / Amy Sonnie, James Tracy ; [foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonnie, Amy, author.

Tracy, James, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community organization--United States--History--20th century.

Community organization.

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Poor white people--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Poor white people.

New Left--United States--History--20th century.

New Left.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

JOIN Community Union.

Young Patriots Organization.

Rising Up Angry (Organization).

White Lightning (Organization).

October 4th Organization.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Updated and revised edition.

Expanded anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, 2021.

Summary:

"Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have often been painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. But authors James Tracy and Amy Sonnie disprove that narrative. Through over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Common Cause Is Freedom: Join Community Union And The Transformation Of Peggy Terry

ch. 2 The Fire Next Time: The Short Life Of The Young Patriots And The Original Rainbow Coalition

ch. 3 Pedagogy Of The Streets: Rising Up Angry

ch. 4 Lightning On The Eastern Seaboard: October 4Th Organization And White Lightning.

Notes:

First edition: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (page 217-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781612199412

1612199410

OCLC:

1237807437

Publisher Number:

99992326544