African American activism and political engagement : an encyclopedia of empowerment /: an encyclopedia of empowerment. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Angela Jones, editor.
• Editors: Jones, Angela, 1978-
• Contents: Introduction / Angela Jones -- Essays. Slavery, freedom, and resistance in the abolition movement and the U.S. visual imagination / Martha J. Cutter ; "To live comfortably from the fruits of our labors" : black women and the early black freedom struggle for labor rights / Danielle Phillips-Cunningham ; The long battle against Jim Crow : African American activism and the history of desegregation / Marisela Martinez-Cola ; African Americans and the fight for the vote / Lawrence Goldstone ; The black power movement : the Black Panther Party and its transnational dimensions / Setsuko Matsuzawa ; Black lives matter : intersectional activism and the future of black liberation / Emmanuel Cannady ; The first black President : the contributions and legacy of Barack Obama / Aaron J. Howell -- Encyclopedia entries. Abernathy, Ralph David, Sr. ; Ableman v. Booth ; Abolition of Slavery ; Affirmative Action ; African American Sororities and Fraternities ; African American Vernacular English ; Afro-American Council/League ; Afrocentrism ; Afrofuturism ; Ali, Muhammad ; Angelou, Maya ; Assassination of Fred Hampton ; Assassination of Malcolm X ; Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ; Audre Lorde Project ; Baker, Ella ; Baldwin, James ; Black Church ; Black Entertainment Television (BET) ; Black Entrepreneurship ; Black Family, The ; Black Liberation Army ; Black Liberation Theology ; Black Lives Matter ; Black Panther Party ; Black Press ; Black Radical Congress ; Black Star Line ; Black Women's Club Movement ; Black World ; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ; Browder v. Gayle ; Brown, John ; Brown v. Board of Education ; Buchanan v. Warley ; Central Park Five (Exonerated Five) ; Chicago Defender, The ; Chisholm, Shirley ; Civil Disobedience ; Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; Civil War ; Clark, Septima Poinsette ; Cleaver, Kathleen ; Color of Change ; Colorism ; Compromise of 1877 ; Congress of Racial Equality ; Congressional Black Caucus ; Cooper, Anna Julia ; Corrigan v. Buckley ; Cotton, Dorothy ; Cox, Laverne ; Crummell, Alexander ; Cullors, Patrisse ; Davis, Angela ; Davis v. St. Louis Housing Authority ; Delany, Martin ; DeLarverie, Stormé ; Douglass, Frederick ; Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Du Bois, W. E. B. ; Ebony Magazine ; Economic Justice ; Education ; Employment Discrimination ; Environmental Racism ; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ; Evers, Medgar ; Executive Order 8802 ; Executive Order 9981 ; Fair Housing Act of 1968 ; Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ; Farmer, James L., Jr. ; Freedman's Savings Bank ; Freedom Summer ; Freedom's Journal ; Garvey, Marcus Mosiah ; Garza, Alicia ; Gentrification ; Gerrymandering ; Gideon v. Wainwright ; Grandfather Clause ; Great Migration ; Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major ; Hamer, Fannie Lou ; Harlem Renaissance ; Health Care ; Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States ; Height, Dorothy ; Hip-Hop ; Historically Black Colleges and Universities ; HIV/AIDS ; Housing Discrimination ; Jackson, Jesse ; Jim Crow ; Johnson, Marsha P. ; Jones, Claudia ; Jordan, Barbara ; Juneteenth ; Kaepernick, Colin ; Kennedy, Florynce "Flo" ; King, Coretta Scott ; King, Martin Luther, Jr. ; Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ; Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee ; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights ; Lewis, John ; Liberator, The ; Literacy ; Little Rock Nine ; Loving v. Virginia ; Lynching ; Malcolm X ; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ; Marshall, Thurgood ; Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex ; McLeod Bethune, Mary ; McNeal Turner, Henry ; Media Representations ; Meredith, James ; Montgomery Bus Boycott ; Montgomery Improvement Association ; Morgan, Gertrude Wright ; Moses, Bob ; Murray, Pauli ; Music and Black Activism ; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ; National Action Network ; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ; National Council of Negro Women ; National Equal Rights League ; National Housing Act of 1934 ; National Negro Congress ; National Urban League ; Negritude ; Negro World ; Newton, Huey P. ; Niagara Movement ; North Star, The ; Obama, Barack ; Obama, Barack : The Election of ; Obama, Barack : First Term in Office ; Obama, Barack : Second Term in Office ; Obama, Michelle ; Obama, Michelle : "Let Girls Learn" Campaign ; Obama, Michelle : "Let's Move" Campaign ; Obama, Michelle : "Reach Higher" Campaign ; Organization of Afro-American Unity ; Owens, Jesse ; Pan-Africanism ; Parks, Rosa ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; Police Brutality ; Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. ; Rainbow/PUSH Coalition ; Randolph, Asa Philip ; Rape ; Reconstruction Amendments ; Redlining ; Reparations ; Richardson, Gloria ; Robinson, Amelia Boynton ; Russwurm, John Brown ; Rustin, Bayard ; Seale, Bobby ; Selma March/Bloody Sunday ; Sharecropping ; Shelley v. Kraemer ; Shuttlesworth, Fred ; Sit-Ins ; Slave Revolts ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Sports and Black Activism ; Stewart, Maria ; Stonewall Riots ; Stop and Frisk ; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) ; Terrell, Mary Church ; Till, Murder of Emmett ; Tometi, Opal ; Trotter, William Monroe ; Truth, Sojourner ; Tubman, Harriet ; Ture, Kwame ; Turner, Nathanial ; Twenty-Fourth Amendment ; Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) ; Voter Suppression ; Voting Rights Act of 1965 ; Walker, David ; Washington, Booker T. ; Waters, Maxine ; Wells, Ida B. ; White Supremacy ; White, Walter ; Wilkins, Roy ; Williams, Hosea ; Young, Whitney ; Youth Actism -- Glossary of Films -- Glossary of Organizations.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 436 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 973/.0496073003; African Americans -- Politics and government -- Encyclopedias; African American political activists -- Biography -- Encyclopedias; African American politicians -- Biography -- Encyclopedias; Civil rights movements -- United States -- Encyclopedias; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy; African American political activists; African American politicians; African Americans -- Politics and government; Civil rights movements; Race relations; United States -- Race relations -- Encyclopedias; United States; Encyclopedias; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216170785; 9788216170786; 8216170785; 9781440876325; 1440876320
• Related ISBNs: 9781440876318; 1440876312
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2023).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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