The economic civil rights movement : African Americans and the struggle for economic power / edited by Michael Ezra.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Description
vi, 213 pages

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Related name
Series
Routledge studies in African American history ; 1
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • A. Philip Randolph, early pioneer : the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, National Negro Congress, and the March on Washington movement / Rhonda Jones
  • Mary McLeod Bethune, the National Council of Negro Women, and the prewar push for equal opportunity in defense projects / gloria-yvonne
  • The Brooklyn Urban League and Equal Employment Opportunity in New York's war industries / Carla J. DuBose
  • Early economic civil rights in Washington, DC : the new Negro Alliance, Howard University, and the Interracial Workshop / Derek Charles Catsam
  • The moral economy of postwar radical interracial summer camping / Orion A. Teal
  • The NAACP boycott of the Amos 'n' Andy Show / Justin T. Lorts
  • Economic civil rights activism in Pensacola, Florida / J. Michael Butler
  • Muhammad Ali's main bout : African American economic power and the World Heavyweight Title / Michael Ezra
  • Operation Breadbasket in Chicago : between civil rights and black capitalism / Enrico Beltramini
  • Progress Plaza : Leon Sullivan, Zion investment associates, and black power in a Philadelphia shopping center / Stephanie Dyer
  • Black power on the factory floor / Kieran W. Taylor
  • Acquiring "a piece of the action" : the rise and fall of the black capitalism movement / Ibram H. Rogers
  • Soul City, North Carolina and the business of black power / Christopher B. Strain.
ISBN
  • 9780415537360 (hbk)
  • 0415537363 (hbk)
LCCN
2012051038
OCLC
773023790
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