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- Book Title
- What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups
- ISBN
- 9780691138367
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- American Government / Local, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Series
- Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled churches as centers of black community life in cities, towns, and rural areas alike. Using an unprecedented variety of secondary and primary sources--including old documents, pictures, and ribbon-badges found in eBay auctions--this book tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations. The authors demonstrate how African American fraternal groups played key roles in the struggle for civil rights and racial integration. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, white legislatures passed laws to outlaw the use of important fraternal names and symbols by blacks. But blacks successfully fought back. Employing lawyers who in some cases went on to work for the NAACP, black fraternalists took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in their favor.At the height of the modern Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, they marched on Washington and supported the lawsuits through lobbying and demonstrations that finally led to legal equality. This unique book reveals a little-known chapter in the story of civic democracy and racial equality in America.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691138362
ISBN-13
9780691138367
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66994293
Product Key Features
Publication Name
What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
American Government / Local, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2008
Series
Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Series Volume Number
169
Lc Classification Number
E185.61.S616 2008
Reviews
This excellent, very readable, scholarly book fills many gaps in understanding the African American community., "This excellent, very readable, scholarly book fills many gaps in understanding the African American community." -- Choice, Heavily researched and illuminating throughout, this unique study is not necessarily a book for the masses, but for those, mostly in academia, interested in examining a little-considered dimension in the complex history of the civil rights movement, and out civil society as a whole., "This valuable study enriches our understanding of the rich fraternal tradition among blacks--alongside those of other Americans--and helps us envision the civic foundations for new efforts to deepen American democracy." --Cornel West, Princeton University, author of Democracy Matters and coauthor of The African-American Century, "This excellent, very readable, scholarly book fills many gaps in understanding the African American community."-- Choice, "This book will instantly become a standard work and the basis for new research by other scholars in a variety of disciplines." --David Fahey, Miami University of Ohio, "Long before the twentieth-century Civil Rights movement, the fraternal and sororal organizations of the black community created and recreated sacred spaces of community solidarity and civic courage in the best spirit of American democracy. The authors convert this little-known story into an important chapter of the history of the United States." --Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School, "An extraordinary work of historical reconstruction. Skocpol, Liazos, and Ganz have mounted a powerful argument, based on a remarkable collection of data, about the importance for American democracy of the rise, decline, and structure of African American civic membership associations." --Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University, author of Shaping Race Policy, Heavily researched and illuminating throughout, this unique study is not necessarily a book for the masses, but for those, mostly in academia, interested in examining a little-considered dimension in the complex history of the civil rights movement, and out civil society as a whole. -- Publishers Weekly, Co-Winner of the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, Race, Gender, and Class Sectionof the American Sociological Association, "Heavily researched and illuminating throughout, this unique study is not necessarily a book for the masses, but for those, mostly in academia, interested in examining a little-considered dimension in the complex history of the civil rights movement, and out civil society as a whole."-- Publishers Weekly, "Heavily researched and illuminating throughout, this unique study is not necessarily a book for the masses, but for those, mostly in academia, interested in examining a little-considered dimension in the complex history of the civil rights movement, and out civil society as a whole." -- Publishers Weekly, This excellent, very readable, scholarly book fills many gaps in understanding the African American community. -- Choice, "I count myself as reasonably knowledgeable of black history, but I was almost entirely ignorant of the African American fraternal tradition and its surprising links to the broader freedom struggle. So what a joy it was to read this book. In resurrecting the history of this submerged tradition, the authors have performed a valuable service for all of us interested in the organizational experience of African Americans." --Douglas McAdam, Stanford University
Table of Content
List of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER ONE: African American Fraternalism: A Missing Chapter in the Story of U.S. Civic Democracy 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Panorama of African American Fraternal Federations with the assistance of Jennifer Lynn Oser 21 CHAPTER THREE: African American Fraternals as Schools for Democracy 61 CHAPTER FOUR: Proprietors, Helpmates, and Pilgrims in Black and White Fraternal Rituals by Bayliss Camp and Orit Kent 95 CHAPTER FIVE: Defending the Legal Right to Organize 135 CHAPTER SIX: Black Fraternalists and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Movement for Civil Rights 174 CHAPTER SEVEN: The Achievements of African American Fraternalism 214 Notes 229 References 265 Index 283
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
369.396073
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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