An indispensable resource for understanding trends and issues in African American political organizing; the history of Black Liberation movements in the United States; and the fortitude, determination, reliance, beauty and influence of Black culture and community. The book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and…mehr
An indispensable resource for understanding trends and issues in African American political organizing; the history of Black Liberation movements in the United States; and the fortitude, determination, reliance, beauty and influence of Black culture and community. The book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and legacy of the nation's first Black president, Barack Obama. The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African-American political activism and empowerment, including biographical profiles of key leaders and activists, political issues and topics of particular interest to African=American voters and lawmakers, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and pivotal events in American culture that have influenced the trajectory of Black participation in the nation's political life.
Angela Jones is professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York.
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Introduction Angela Jones (Farmingdale State College State University of New York USA) Essays Slavery Freedom and Resistance in the Abolition Movement and the U.S. Visual Imagination Martha J. Cutter (University of Connecticut USA) "To Live Comfortably from the Fruits of Our Labors": Black Women and the Early Black Freedom Struggle for Labor Rights Danielle Phillips-Cunningham (Texas Woman's University USA) The Long Battle against Jim Crow: African American Activism and the History of Desegregation Marisela Martinez-Cola (Morehouse College USA) African Americans and the Fight for the Vote Lawrence Goldstone (USA) The Black Power Movement: The Black Panther Party and Its Transnational Dimensions Setsuko Matsuzawa (College of Wooster USA) Black Lives Matter: Intersectional Activism and the Future of Black Liberation Emmanuel Cannady (University of Notre Dame USA). The First Black President: The Contributions and Legacy of Barack Obama Aaron J. Howell (University of Mount Union USA) Encyclopedia Entries Abernathy Ralph David Sr. Ableman v. Booth Abolition of Slavery Affirmative Action African American Sororities and Fraternities African American Vernacular English Afro-American Council/League Afrocentrism Afrofuturism Ali Muhammad Angelou Maya Assassination of Fred Hampton Assassination of Malcolm X Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Audre Lorde Project Baker Ella Baldwin James Black Entertainment Television (BET) Black Church Black Entrepreneurship The Black Family Black Liberation Army Black Liberation Theology Black Lives Matter Black Panther Party Black Press Black Radical Congress Black Star Line Black Women's Club Movement Black World Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Browder v. Gayle Brown John Brown v. Board of Education Buchanan v. Warley Central Park Five (Exonerated Five) Chicago Defender The Chisholm Shirley Civil Disobedience Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil War Clark Septima Poinsette Cleaver Kathleen Color of Change Colorism Compromise of 1877 Congress of Racial Equality Congressional Black Caucus Cooper Anna Julia Corrigan v. Buckley Cotton Dorothy Cox Laverne Crummell Alexander Cullors Patrisse Davis Angela Davis v. St. Louis Housing Authority Delany Martin DeLarverie Stormé Douglass Frederick Dred Scott v. Sandford Employment Discrimination Environmental Racism Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Evers Medgar Executive Order 8802 Executive Order 9981 Fair Housing Act of 1968 Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Farmer James L. Jr. Freedman's Savings Bank Freedom Summer Freedom's Journal Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garza Alicia Gentrification Gerrymandering Gideon v. Wainwright Grandfather Clause Great Migration Griffin-Gracy Miss Major Hamer Fannie Lou Harlem Renaissance Health Care Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States Height Dorothy Hip-Hop Historically Black Colleges & Universities HIV/AIDS Housing Discrimination Jackson Jesse Jim Crow Johnson Marsha P. Jones Claudia Jordan Barbara Juneteenth Kaepernick Colin Kennedy Florynce "Flo" King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther Jr. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Lewis John Liberator The Literacy Little Rock Nine Loving v. Virginia Lynching Malcolm X March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Marshall Thurgood Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex McLeod Bethune Mary McNeal Turner Henry Media Representations Meredith James Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Improvement Association Morgan Gertrude Wright Moses Bob Murray Pauli Music and Black Activism NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Action Network National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Council of Negro Women283 National Equal Rights League National Housing Act of 1934 National Negro Congress National Urban League Negritude Negro World Newton Huey P. Niagara Movement North Star The Obama Barack Obama Barack: The Election of Obama Barack: First Term in Office Obama Barack: Second Term in Office Obama Michelle Obama Michelle: "Let Girls Learn" Campaign Obama Michelle: "Let's Move" Campaign Obama Michelle: "Reach Higher" Campaign Organization of Afro-American Unity Owens Jesse Pan-Africanism Parks Rosa Plessy v. Ferguson Police Brutality Powell Adam Clayton Jr. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Randolph Asa Philip Rape Reconstruction Amendments Redlining Reparations Richardson Gloria Robinson Amelia Boynton Russwurm John Brown Rustin Bayard Seale Bobby Selma March/Bloody Sunday Sharecropping Shelley v. Kraemer Shuttlesworth Fred Sit-Ins Slave Revolts Southern Christian Leadership Conference Sports and Black Activism Stewart Maria Stonewall Riots Stop and Frisk Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Terrell Mary Church Till Murder of Emmett Tometi Opal Trotter William Monroe Truth Sojourner Tubman Harriet Ture Kwame Turner Nathanial Twenty-Fourth Amendment Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) Voter Suppression Voting Rights Act of 1965 Walker David Washington Booker T. Waters Maxine Wells Ida B. White Supremacy White Walter Wilkins Roy Williams Hosea Young Whitney Youth Activism Glossary of Films Darrien Hunt Glossary of Organizations Darrien Hunt Selected Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index
Introduction Angela Jones (Farmingdale State College State University of New York USA) Essays Slavery Freedom and Resistance in the Abolition Movement and the U.S. Visual Imagination Martha J. Cutter (University of Connecticut USA) "To Live Comfortably from the Fruits of Our Labors": Black Women and the Early Black Freedom Struggle for Labor Rights Danielle Phillips-Cunningham (Texas Woman's University USA) The Long Battle against Jim Crow: African American Activism and the History of Desegregation Marisela Martinez-Cola (Morehouse College USA) African Americans and the Fight for the Vote Lawrence Goldstone (USA) The Black Power Movement: The Black Panther Party and Its Transnational Dimensions Setsuko Matsuzawa (College of Wooster USA) Black Lives Matter: Intersectional Activism and the Future of Black Liberation Emmanuel Cannady (University of Notre Dame USA). The First Black President: The Contributions and Legacy of Barack Obama Aaron J. Howell (University of Mount Union USA) Encyclopedia Entries Abernathy Ralph David Sr. Ableman v. Booth Abolition of Slavery Affirmative Action African American Sororities and Fraternities African American Vernacular English Afro-American Council/League Afrocentrism Afrofuturism Ali Muhammad Angelou Maya Assassination of Fred Hampton Assassination of Malcolm X Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Audre Lorde Project Baker Ella Baldwin James Black Entertainment Television (BET) Black Church Black Entrepreneurship The Black Family Black Liberation Army Black Liberation Theology Black Lives Matter Black Panther Party Black Press Black Radical Congress Black Star Line Black Women's Club Movement Black World Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Browder v. Gayle Brown John Brown v. Board of Education Buchanan v. Warley Central Park Five (Exonerated Five) Chicago Defender The Chisholm Shirley Civil Disobedience Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil War Clark Septima Poinsette Cleaver Kathleen Color of Change Colorism Compromise of 1877 Congress of Racial Equality Congressional Black Caucus Cooper Anna Julia Corrigan v. Buckley Cotton Dorothy Cox Laverne Crummell Alexander Cullors Patrisse Davis Angela Davis v. St. Louis Housing Authority Delany Martin DeLarverie Stormé Douglass Frederick Dred Scott v. Sandford Employment Discrimination Environmental Racism Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Evers Medgar Executive Order 8802 Executive Order 9981 Fair Housing Act of 1968 Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Farmer James L. Jr. Freedman's Savings Bank Freedom Summer Freedom's Journal Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garza Alicia Gentrification Gerrymandering Gideon v. Wainwright Grandfather Clause Great Migration Griffin-Gracy Miss Major Hamer Fannie Lou Harlem Renaissance Health Care Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States Height Dorothy Hip-Hop Historically Black Colleges & Universities HIV/AIDS Housing Discrimination Jackson Jesse Jim Crow Johnson Marsha P. Jones Claudia Jordan Barbara Juneteenth Kaepernick Colin Kennedy Florynce "Flo" King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther Jr. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Lewis John Liberator The Literacy Little Rock Nine Loving v. Virginia Lynching Malcolm X March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Marshall Thurgood Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex McLeod Bethune Mary McNeal Turner Henry Media Representations Meredith James Montgomery Bus Boycott Montgomery Improvement Association Morgan Gertrude Wright Moses Bob Murray Pauli Music and Black Activism NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Action Network National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Council of Negro Women283 National Equal Rights League National Housing Act of 1934 National Negro Congress National Urban League Negritude Negro World Newton Huey P. Niagara Movement North Star The Obama Barack Obama Barack: The Election of Obama Barack: First Term in Office Obama Barack: Second Term in Office Obama Michelle Obama Michelle: "Let Girls Learn" Campaign Obama Michelle: "Let's Move" Campaign Obama Michelle: "Reach Higher" Campaign Organization of Afro-American Unity Owens Jesse Pan-Africanism Parks Rosa Plessy v. Ferguson Police Brutality Powell Adam Clayton Jr. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Randolph Asa Philip Rape Reconstruction Amendments Redlining Reparations Richardson Gloria Robinson Amelia Boynton Russwurm John Brown Rustin Bayard Seale Bobby Selma March/Bloody Sunday Sharecropping Shelley v. Kraemer Shuttlesworth Fred Sit-Ins Slave Revolts Southern Christian Leadership Conference Sports and Black Activism Stewart Maria Stonewall Riots Stop and Frisk Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Terrell Mary Church Till Murder of Emmett Tometi Opal Trotter William Monroe Truth Sojourner Tubman Harriet Ture Kwame Turner Nathanial Twenty-Fourth Amendment Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) Voter Suppression Voting Rights Act of 1965 Walker David Washington Booker T. Waters Maxine Wells Ida B. White Supremacy White Walter Wilkins Roy Williams Hosea Young Whitney Youth Activism Glossary of Films Darrien Hunt Glossary of Organizations Darrien Hunt Selected Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index
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