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Book

Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power : community organizing in radical times

Call Number

  • 303.484 S6993 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011]

Physical Description

xx, 201 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s, in a deeply sourced narrative history"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents

  • 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. Lightening on the Eastern Seaboard : October 4th Organization and White Lightening.

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Added Authors

James Tracy