Chapter 1 “They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid” Ruth Batson and the Educational Movement in Boston

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 “They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid” Ruth Batson and the Educational Movement in Boston 17
7. Chapter 2 “Drive Awhile for Freedom” Brooklyn CORE’s 1964 Stall-In and Public Discourses on Protest Violence 45
8. Chapter 3 Message from the Grassroots: The Black Power Experiment in Newark, New Jersey 77
9. Chapter 4 Gloria Richardson and the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland 97
10. Chapter 5 We’ve Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings, and the Changing Civil Rights Movement 116
11. Chapter 6 Organizing for More Than the Vote: The Political Radicalization of Local People in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965–1966 140
12. Chapter 7 “God’s Appointed Savior” Charles Evers’s Use of Local Movements for National Stature 165
13. Chapter 8 Local Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited 193
14. Chapter 9 The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943–1953 215
15. Chapter 10 “We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us” Community Activists Respond to Violence at Detroit’s Northwestern High School, 1940–1941 235
16. Chapter 11 “Not a Color, but an Attitude” Father James Groppi and Black Power Politics in Milwaukee 259
17. Chapter 12 Practical Internationalists: The Story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party 282
18. Chapter 13 Inside the Panther Revolution: The Black Freedom Movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 300
19. About the Contributors 319
20. Index 321