This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black Liberators, Mid-City Congress, Jeff Vander Lou Community Action Group, DuBois Club, CORE, Zulu 1200s, and the Nation of Islam to illuminate the larger Black liberation struggle in the Midwest in the mid- and late 1960s. Furthermore, this work details the larger atmosphere and conditions in St. Louis, Missouri and the Midwest from which this local movement developed and operated. This work raises important questions about periodizing and locating Black liberation and Black Nationalism. As racial oppression in the United States was equated with neo-colonialism and internal-colonialism, this discussion reveals the global nature of white supremacy, race and class oppression and exploitation, as well as the material and ideological relationship between local and transnational liberation movements.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415805957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148733344
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Civil Service
Author
Kenneth Jolly
Publication Name
Black Liberation in the MidWest: the Struggle in ST. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
234 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kenneth Jolly
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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