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Author:   Horace Huntley ,  John W. McKerley ,  Robin D. G. Kelley ,  Rose Freeman Massey
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780252034787

ISBN 10:   0252034783
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Abbreviationsiii; Acknowledgements iv; Preface v; Introduction; Foot Soldiers for Democracy 1; Robin D.G. Kelley; Look for Them in the Whirlwind 8; Rose Freeman Massey; 1. Emma S. Young 19; 2. Eva Lou Russell 35; 3. Jimmie Lucille Hooks 45; 4. Nims E. Gay 60; 5. James Armstrong 74; 6. Joe Hendricks 90; 7. James Summerville 102; 8. Henry M. Goodgame, Sr. 107; 9. Joe Dickson 118; 10. Johnnie Summerville 140; 11. Jonathan McPherson 147; 12. LaVerne Revis Martin 155; 13. Paul Littlejohn 164; 14. Carlton Reese 170; 15. Elizabeth Fitts 183; 16. James Roberson 190; 17. Annetta Streeter Gary 197; 18. James Ware and Melvin Ware 207; 19. Willie A. Casey 213; 20. James W. Stewart 222; 21. Gwendolyn Gamble 237; 22. Carolyn McKinstry 248; 23. Carl Grace 264; 24. Malcolm Hooks 276; 25. Miriam McClendon 284; 26. Washington Booker III 296; 27. Shirley Smith Miller 316; 28. Carrie Hamilton Lock 324; 29. Audrey Hendricks 336; Epilogue 342

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This outstanding work is an enormous contribution to the literature on the civil rights movement, and it will provide rich material for debate as well as inspiration for years to come. Paul Ortiz, author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920

"""This outstanding work is an enormous contribution to the literature on the civil rights movement, and it will provide rich material for debate as well as inspiration for years to come."" Paul Ortiz, author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920"

Author Information

Horace Huntley is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, the director of the Oral History Project at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and the coeditor of Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.John W. McKerley is a faculty research associate and assistant editor with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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