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African American activism and political engagement : an encyclopedia of empowerment / Angela Jones, editor.

Other author/creatorJones, Angela, 1978- editor.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Copyright Notice ©2023
Description1 online resource (xv, 436 pages) : illustrations
Supplemental Content EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
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
Contents 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) ;
Contents 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 ;
Contents 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 ;
Contents 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 ;
Contents 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 ;
Contents 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.
Abstract "This authoritative encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging survey of the history, development, and current state of African American political activism and influence in American life and culture. This book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and legacy of the nation's first Black president, Barak Obama. The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African American political activism and empowerment, including biographical profiles of key leaders and activists, political issues and topics of particular interest to African American voters and lawmakers, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and pivotal events in American culture that have influenced the trajectory of Black participation in the nation's political life"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2023).
Issued in other formPrint version: African American activism and political engagement. 1st Edition. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2023] 9781440876318
Genre/formencyclopedias.
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LCCN 2022041701
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ISBN9788216170786 (electronic book)
ISBN8216170785 (electronic book)
ISBN9781440876325 (electronic book)
ISBN1440876320 (electronic book)
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