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Title Civil rights and beyond : African American and Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States / edited by Brian D. Behnken.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents African American and Latino/a activism(s) and relations: an introduction / Brian D. Behnken -- From the "next best thing to one of us" to "one of us": Edward Roybal, Gilbert Lindsay, and racial politics in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s / Kevin Allen Leonard -- Civil rights "beyond the fields": African American and Mexican American civil rights activism in Bakersfield, California, 1947-1964 / Oliver A. Rosales -- Beyond 1959: Cuban exiles, race, and Miami's Black freedom struggle / Chanelle Nyree Rose -- Internationalizing civil rights: Afro-Cubans, African Americans, and the problem of global apartheid / Mark Malisa -- "We need to unite with as many people as possible": the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Organization in Chicago / Jakobi Williams -- "A common citizenship of freedom": what Black power taught Chicago's Puerto Rican independentistas / Dan Berger -- "Justice now! Justicia ahora!": African American-Puerto Rican radicalism in Camden, New Jersey / Laurie Lahey -- Forgotten residents fighting back: the Ludlow Community Association and neighborhood improvement in Philadelphia / Alyssa Ribeiro -- The next struggle: African American and Latino/a collaborative activism in the post-civil rights era / Brian D. Behnken -- Rainbow reformers: Black-Brown activism and the election of Harold Washington / Gordon Mantler -- Southern solidarities: U.S. civil rights and Latin American social movements in the nuevo south / Hannah Gill.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Latin Americans -- United States -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Latin Americans -- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Behnken, Brian D., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Civil rights and beyond : African American and Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016 9780820349169
ISBN 9780820349169 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820349176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820349152 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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