Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change

2009-02-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Lorraine Nelson Spritzer
Release : 2009-02-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change by : Lorraine Nelson Spritzer

Download or read book Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change written by Lorraine Nelson Spritzer. This book was released on 2009-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No history of the civil rights era in the South would be complete without an account of the remarkable life and career of Grace Towns Hamilton, the first African American woman in the Deep South to be elected to a state legislature. A national official of the Young Women's Christian Association early in her career, Hamilton later headed the Atlanta Urban League, where she worked within the confines of segregation to equalize African American access to education, health care, and voting rights. In the Georgia legislature from 1965 until 1984, she exercised considerable power as a leader in the black struggle for local, state, and national offices, promoting interracial cooperation as the key to racial justice. Her probity and moderation paved the way for the election of other black women, and by the end of her political career no southern legislature was without women members of her race. Lorraine Nelson Spritzer and Jean B. Bergmark examine two generations of African American history to give the long view of Hamilton's activism. The life spans of Hamilton and her father, an Atlanta University professor who was her greatest mentor, encompassed the best and worst of the African American experience, inevitably shaping Hamilton's outlook and achievements.

Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

2013-03-20 History

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Release : 2013-03-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 99X/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement by : Bruce A. Glasrud

Download or read book Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement written by Bruce A. Glasrud. This book was released on 2013-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE WINNER 2013 of the Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, presented by the Texas State Historical Association Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts. Although African American women mobilized all across Dixie, their particular strategies took different forms in different states, just as the opposition they faced from white segregationists took different shapes. Studies of what happened at the state and local levels are critical not only because of what black women accomplished, but also because their activism, leadership, and courage demonstrated the militancy needed for a mass movement. In this volume, scholars address similarities and variations by providing case studies of the individual states during the 1950s and 1960s, laying the groundwork for more synthetic analyses of the circumstances, factors, and strategies used by black women in the former Confederate states to destroy the system of segregation in this country.

Race and the Greening of Atlanta

2023-08-15 History

Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Release : 2023-08-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Race and the Greening of Atlanta by : Christopher C. Sellers

Download or read book Race and the Greening of Atlanta written by Christopher C. Sellers. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of “the environment.” Arising out of Atlanta’s Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism’s undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South. Placing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style of capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national “poster child” for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region’s Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.

Lost Revolutions

2000 History

Author : Pete Daniel
Release : 2000
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Lost Revolutions by : Pete Daniel

Download or read book Lost Revolutions written by Pete Daniel. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events and societal trends that created disturbance and conflict after World War II, discussing school integration, migration into the cities, the civil rights movement, and the breakdown of traditional values.

Popular eBooks

Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change

Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Race and the Greening of Atlanta

Lost Revolutions

You may also like...