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Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977

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Description for Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977 Paperback. A history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take centre stage alongside well-known figures. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; GTB; HBJK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless narrative stretching from the student nonviolent direct action movement and the first experiments in urban field organizing through efforts to define and realize the meaning of Black Power to the reemergence of Black women-centered activism. The work of African Americans in Atlanta, Grady-Willis argues, was crucial to the broader development of late-twentieth-century Black ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822337911
SKU
V9780822337911
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About Winston A. Grady-Willis
Winston A. Grady-Willis is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University.

Reviews for Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977
“Challenging U.S. Apartheid is a brilliant and provocative contribution to our understanding of the Black freedom movement in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s. While Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has long dominated our understanding of the movement in Atlanta, Winston A. Grady-Willis forces us to look again with a wider lens and a new set of sensibilities. With insight ... Read more

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