An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee /
An unseen light : black struggles for freedom in Memphis, Tennessee /
edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr.
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / "The saving of black America's body and white America's soul": the lynching of Ell Persons and the rise of black activism in Memphis / Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Brian D. Page -- Darius Young -- Elton H. Weaver III -- David Welky -- Beverly Greene Bond -- Jason Jordan -- Laurie B. Green -- Elizabeth Gritter -- Steven A. Knowlton -- Charles Hughes -- Aram Goudsouzian -- Anthony C. Siracusa -- James Conway -- Shirletta Kinchen -- Zandria F. Robinson -- Michael Honey.
9780813175539
African Americans--Civil rights--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--Political activity--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights movements--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
Electronic Books.
F444 / .U574 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
"In the hands of the Lord": migrants and community politics in the late nineteenth century / "The saving of black America's body and white America's soul": the lynching of Ell Persons and the rise of black activism in Memphis / Equal power: Bishop Charles H. Mason and the National Tabernacle fire / "There will be no discrimination": race, power, and the Memphis flood of 1937 / Taylor-made: envisioning black Memphis at midcentury / "We'll have no race trouble here": racial politics and Memphis's reign of terror / Power and protection: gender and black working-class protest narratives, 1940-1948 / Black Memphians and new frontiers: the Shelby County Democratic Club, the Kennedy administration, and the quest for black political power, 1959-1964 / "Since I was a citizen, I had the right to attend the library": the key role of the public library in the civil rights movement in Memphis / "You pay one hell of a price to be black": Rufus Thomas and the racial politics of Memphis music / "If the march cannot be here, then where?": Memphis and the Meredith March / Nonviolence, black power, and the surveillance state in Memphis's war on poverty / Beyond 1968: the 1969 Black Monday protest in Memphis / Beauty and the black student revolt: black student activism at Memphis State and the politics of campus "beauty spaces" / After Stax: race, sound, and neighborhood revitalization / Black workers matter: the continuing search for racial and economic equality in Memphis / Brian D. Page -- Darius Young -- Elton H. Weaver III -- David Welky -- Beverly Greene Bond -- Jason Jordan -- Laurie B. Green -- Elizabeth Gritter -- Steven A. Knowlton -- Charles Hughes -- Aram Goudsouzian -- Anthony C. Siracusa -- James Conway -- Shirletta Kinchen -- Zandria F. Robinson -- Michael Honey.
9780813175539
African Americans--Civil rights--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--Political activity--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights movements--History.--Tennessee--Memphis
Electronic Books.
F444 / .U574 2018