The Struggle Is Eternal (eBook)

Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

Joseph R. Fitzgerald (Autor)

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2018
360 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7654-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategiesincluding her belief that black people had a right to selfdefensewere adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists.The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, including interviews with Richardson and her personal papers, as well as interviews with dozens of her friends, relatives, and civil rights colleagues, Joseph R. Fitzgerald presents an all-encompassing narrative. From Richardson's childhood, when her parents taught her the importance of racial pride, through the next eight decades, Fitzgerald relates a detailed and compelling story of her life. He reveals how Richardson's human rights activism extended far beyond Cambridge and how her leadership style and vision for liberation were embraced by the younger activists of the black power movement, who would carry the struggle on throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

Autor

Joseph R. Fitzgerald is assistant professor of history and political science at Cabrini University. His areas of focus include critical race feminism and the civil rights and black power waves of the modern black liberation movement.

Inhalt

Introduction
Foundations
Get Up, Stand Up
Capital Gains
Dreams Deferred
Shock Therapy, Round One
Shock Therapy, Round Two
A Nonnegotiable Right
Creative Chaos
Vanguard
'You Will Not Be Able to Stay Home, [Sister]'
Back to Work
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w halftones, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Africana Studies • Black Power • Black Studies • Civil Rights • Gender • gender and women's studies • Girl Power • Grassroots movement • Humanism • influential women • Self-Defense • transitional leader • women activists • Women in History
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7654-9 / 0813176549
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7654-3 / 9780813176543