..., long-ignored, sometimes internally divided, and mostly quiet African American communities of the urban North came to assert a bold, collective history of struggle and resistance for themselves, one in keeping with heroic tales of the national black freedom struggle. African Americans civil rights...

...This book recounts the story of the Indian freedom struggle from the Great Revolt of 1857 and the attainment of independence in 1947. While mentioning most of the principal actors and events, the volume focuses more on the aims and development of Indian independence rather than on personalities...

... considers the impact of revolutionary ideology on American blacks, followed by a discussion on the legacy of the American Revolution in the black freedom struggle during the antebellum period. It then analyzes the place of Americanism in black thought, paying particular attention to how free blacks...

... are explained. Links are made between these examples and the wider narrative of student protest and racial politics. To varying degrees these case studies show the problems associated with using the sporting arena to try and advance the aims of the black freedom struggle. Rodgers Pepper University of Kansas...

... into the air on the winner’s podium, displays the complexity of the links between the black athletic revolt and the wider freedom struggle. This chapter explores the meaning of their stand and the reaction to it both at the time and in the years since. The outraged response of Avery Brundage and the sporting...

... Bethune Mary McLeod Defiance Campaign Mandela Nelson Mason Vivian Carter Matthews Frieda Ngoyi Lilian Robeson Eslanda Goode James C L R African Americans Apartheid White Supremacy Black Freedom Struggle The Civil Rights Movement Cold War Anticommunism Black Internationalism Diaspora...

... program that did not adhere to segregation, that taught black history, and that gave working-class black Mississippians control over a federal program. Head Start thus became an integral part of the Mississippi African American freedom struggle. Blackwell Unita Brown Civil Rights Act of 1964 Democratic...

...This book chronicles the black freedom struggle in Clarksdale, Mississippi, from 1951 to the mid-1970s. It illustrates how a community organizing during the mass civil rights movement found, chose, or appropriated opportunities to survive. The book presents narratives that demonstrate the triumphs...

... about Black identity within the African diaspora, and to explain how the book as a whole fits into ongoing conversations about AIDS history, the Black freedom struggle, and Black internationalism. AIDS Belle Glade Florida Hurston Zora Neale Institute of Tropical Medicine International AIDS...

... mystical Sapru Tej Bahadur Naidu Sarojini Afghanistan Afghans Badauni Fani Hyderabad Jalandhari Hafiz Khan Ayub Malihabadi Josh Pukhraj Malika Lakhnavi Arzoo Lakhnavi Jalal Mumbai Bombay Radio Pakistan Nationalism Neoclassical Poets Freedom Struggle Urdu Teaching Material Ghazal...

...This chapter recounts Gandhi’s 241-mile trek from Ahmedabad to Dandi, inaugurating the ‘Salt Satyagraha’, which proved to be one of the most dramatic and successful episodes in the history of the Indian freedom struggle. It discusses how Gandhi’s imprisonment stimulated rather than slackened civil...

...The introduction explains the book’s main premise that Katherine Dunham was an important intellectual and activist in the long black freedom struggle of the twentieth century. It argues that she made two primary contributions to this movement. First, she made dance a part of the fight for racial...

...This chapter focuses on the nationalist politics of the black power era, but not with the intent of bashing the shortcomings of black nationalism during the 1960s and 1970s. It does not hold the view, for example, that the black power era represents a moment of decline in the black freedom struggle...

...This book challenges the cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle era that hinges on a master narrative focused on the “heroic period” of the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that this narrative limits the representation of African American identity within the Civil Rights Movement...

...This chapter examines North Carolina’s and the federal government’s harassment and disruption of the Black Freedom Struggle in Wilmington culminating in the frame-up and trial of the Wilmington Ten. The particulars of the authorities’ harassment of Ben Chavis, such as ensnaring him in serial...

... the modern black freedom struggle and the black literary tradition. By considering leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Barack Obama as both historical personages and narrative inventions of contemporary American culture, this book brings to the study of black politics...

...This chapter examines the experiences of Mario Savio in the freedom struggle in Mississippi and Berkeley, California. It explains that Savio experienced violence because of his participation in the Mississippi Summer Project and suggests that his development as an activist illustrated...

... Reddick’s historiographical significance, particularly as it helps us understand the radical, international, and intellectual roots of the twentieth century’s long black freedom struggle. anti Semitism Atlanta GA Colin Frank Duke David Harvard University King Charles Ku Klux Klan Philadelphia...

... alike. In The Scholar and the Struggle, David A. Varel tells Reddick's compelling story. His biography reveals the many essential but underappreciated roles played by intellectuals in the black freedom struggle and connects the past to the present in powerful, unforgettable ways....

..., and legacy of the Black Panther Party's international engagement and the ways in which it intersected with larger developments in the Third World, the Cold War, and the black freedom struggle. Carmichael Stokely Lowndes County Freedom Organization Newton Huey P panther icon Seale Bobby Student...