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Ain't Scared of Your Jail

Author : Zoe A Colley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081304264X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ain't Scared of Your Jail written by Zoe A Colley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imprisonment became a badge of honor for many protestors during the civil rights movement. With the popularization of expressions such as "jail-no-bail" and "jail-in," civil rights activists sought to transform arrest and imprisonment from something to be feared to a platform for the cause. Beyond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letters from the Birmingham Jail," there has been little discussion on the incarceration experiences of civil rights activists. In her debut book, Zoe Colley does what no historian has done before by following civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment. Colley focuses on the shift in philosophical and strategic responses of civil rights protestors from seeing jail as something to be avoided to seeing it as a way to further the cause. Imprisonment became a way to expose the evils of segregation, and highlighted to the rest of American society the injustice of southern racism. By drawing together the narratives of many individuals and organizations, Colley paints a clearer picture how the incarceration of civil rights activists helped shape the course of the movement. She places imprisonment at the forefront of civil rights history and shows how these new attitudes toward arrest continue to impact contemporary society and shape strategies for civil disobedience.

When the Spirit Says Sing!

Author : Kerran L. Sanger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136601287
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book When the Spirit Says Sing! written by Kerran L. Sanger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s and early 1960s, such songs as "We Shall Overcome," "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," and "Do What the Spirit Says Do" were sung at virtually every mass meeting, demonstration, and planning session of Civil Rights activists. They were sung on the Freedom Rides, during the marches, and in jail cells of the South. Movement activists have commented frequently and eloquently on the ways that singing and songs gave them strength and a sense of self. This study offers a close analysis of the lyrics of the songs most central to the Civil Rights Movement, with an eye to understanding the songs as self-persuasion. In the songs, the activists defined themselves and their world, and reinforced a plan of action for their participation in the Movement. This analysis of the freedom songs is set in the context of Movement history and supported with commentary from activists and background information on Movement activities. In addition, this study offers readers insights into the moving and inspiring power of the freedom songs.

King

Author : Harvard Sitkoff
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9781429923385
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book King written by Harvard Sitkoff and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance Might Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil rights leaders. In this concise biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant King. The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, King's 1963 soul-stirring address from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and the 1965 history-altering Selma march are all recounted. But these are not treated as predetermined high points in a life celebrated for its role in a civil rights struggle too many Americans have quickly relegated to the past. Carefully presented alongside King's successes are his failures—as an organizer in Albany, Georgia, and St. Augustine, Florida; as a leader of ever more strident activists; as a husband. Together, high and low points are interwoven to capture King's lifelong struggle, through disappointment and epiphany, with his own injunction: "Let us be Christian in all our actions." By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fullest fulfillment, Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him—to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice.

Playing for Change

Author : Rob Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317254155
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Playing for Change written by Rob Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed. Is it truly the 'lifeblood' of movements, as some have declared, or merely the entertainment between the speeches? Drawing on interviews, case studies and musical and lyrical analysis, Rosenthal and Flacks offer a brilliant analysis and a wide-ranging look at the use of music in movements, in the US and elsewhere, over the past hundred years. From their interviews, the voices of Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello, Holly Near, and many others enliven this highly readable book.

King

Author : Harvard Sitkoff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809063499
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book King written by Harvard Sitkoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Honestly assessing his successes alongside his failures, King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop weaves together high and low points to capture King's lifelong struggle, through disappointment and epiphany, with his own injunction: "Let us be Christian in all our actions." By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fulfillment, Sitkoff powerfully shows where King's faith and activism were leading him--to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice.

The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992

Author : Harvard Sitkoff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374523565
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992 written by Harvard Sitkoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Struggle for Black Equality "is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas," through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of the 1990s. harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of the civils-rights organization--SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and others--but a superb study of the continuing problems plaguing the African-American population: the future that in 1980 seemed to hold much promise for a better way of life has by the early1990s hardly lived up to expectations. Jim Crow has gone, but, forty years after "Brown," poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservativepolicies, and prolonged recession have made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal. All Americans who strove and suffered to make democracy real come vividly to life in these compelling pages.

Seeing Like an Activist

Author : Erin R. Pineda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197526454
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Like an Activist written by Erin R. Pineda and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and submitted willingly to legal punishment in order to demand necessary legislative reforms and facilitate the realization of core constitutional and democratic principles. Their fidelity to the spirit of the law, commitment to civility, and allegiance to American democracy set the normative standard for liberal philosophies of civil disobedience. This narrative offers the civil disobedience of the Civil Rights Movement as a moral exemplar: a blueprint for activists who seek transformative change and racial justice within the bounds of democracy. Yet in this book, Erin R. Pineda shows how it more often functions as a disciplining examplea means of scolding activists and quieting dissent. As Pineda argues, the familiar account of Civil Rights disobedience not only misremembers history; it also distorts our political judgments about how civil disobedience might fit into democratic politics. Seeing Like an Activist charts the emergence of this influential account of civil disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement, and demonstrates its reliance on a narrative about black protest that is itself entangled with white supremacy. Liberal political theorists whose work informed decades of scholarship saw civil disobedience "like a white state": taking for granted the legitimacy of the constitutional order, assuming as primary the ends of constitutional integrity and stability, centering the white citizen as the normative ideal, and figuring the problem of racial injustice as limited, exceptional, and all-but-already solved. Instead, this book "sees" civil disobedience from the perspective of an activist, showing the consequences for ideas about how civil disobedience ought to unfold in the present. Building on historical and archival evidence, Pineda shows how civil rights activists, in concert with anticolonial movements across the globe, turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonization in order to emancipate themselves and others, and in the process transform the racial order. Pineda recovers this powerful alternative account by adopting a different theoretical approach--one which sees activists as themselves engaged in the creative work of political theorizing.

Sing for Freedom

Author : Candie Carawan
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603062483
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Sing for Freedom written by Candie Carawan and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classic collections of freedom songs, We Shall Overcome (1963) and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (1968), are reprinted here in a single edition which includes a major new introduction by the editors, words and music to songs, important documentary photographs, and scores of firsthand accounts by participants in this key movement which reshaped U.S. history.

Many Minds, One Heart

Author : Wesley C. Hogan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807867896
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Many Minds, One Heart written by Wesley C. Hogan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and Black Power movement of which it was a part. As Hogan chronicles, the members of SNCC created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom, including the sit-ins of 1960, the rejuvenated Freedom Rides of 1961, and grassroots democracy projects in Georgia and Mississippi. She highlights several key players--including Charles Sherrod, Bob Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer--as innovators of grassroots activism and democratic practice. Breaking new ground, Hogan shows how SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. She traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes. Many Minds, One Heart ultimately reframes the movement and asks us to look anew at where America stands on justice and equality today.

Nothing but Love in God’s Water

Author : Robert Darden
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271080140
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Nothing but Love in God’s Water written by Robert Darden and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and sustaining those most heavily involved in the civil rights movement. Robert Darden, former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine and the founder of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project at Baylor University, brings this vivid, vital story to life. He explains why black sacred music helped foster community within the civil rights movement and attract new adherents; shows how Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders used music to underscore and support their message; and reveals how the songs themselves traveled and changed as the fight for freedom for African Americans continued. Darden makes an unassailable case for the importance of black sacred music not only to the civil rights era but also to present-day struggles in and beyond the United States. Taking us from the Deep South to Chicago and on to the nation’s capital, Darden’s grittily detailed, lively telling is peppered throughout with the words of those who were there, famous and forgotten alike: activists such as Rep. John Lewis, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and Willie Bolden, as well as musical virtuosos such as Harry Belafonte, Duke Ellington, and The Mighty Wonders. Expertly assembled from published and unpublished writing, oral histories, and rare recordings, this is the history of the soundtrack that fueled the long march toward freedom and equality for the black community in the United States and that continues to inspire and uplift people all over the world.

Abject Joy

Author : Ryan S. Schellenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190065532
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Abject Joy written by Ryan S. Schellenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No extant text gives so vivid a glimpse into the experience of an ancient prisoner as Paul's letter to the Philippians. As a letter from prison, however, it is not what one would expect. For although it is true that Paul, like some other ancient prisoners, speaks in Philippians of his yearning for death, what he expresses most conspicuously is contentment and even joy. Setting aside pious banalities that contrast true joy with happiness, and leaving behind too heroic depictions that take their cue from Acts, Abject Joy offers a reading of Paul's letter as both a means and an artifact of his provisional attempt to make do. By outlining the uses of punitive custody in the administration of Rome's eastern provinces and describing the prison's complex place in the social and moral imagination of the Greek and Roman world, Ryan Schellenberg provides a richly drawn account of Paul's nonelite social context, where bodies and their affects were shaped by acute contingency and habitual susceptibility to violent subjugation. Informed by recent work in the history of emotions, and with comparison to modern prison writing and ethnography provoking new questions and insights, Schellenberg describes Paul's letter as an affective technology, wielded at once on Paul himself and on his addressees, that works to strengthen his grasp on the very joy he names. Abject Joy: Paul, Prison, and the Art of Making Do by Ryan S. Schellenberg is a social history of prison in the Greek and Roman world that takes Paul's letter to the Philippians as its focal instance--or, to put it the other way around, a study of Paul's letter to the Philippians that takes the reality of prison as its starting point. Examining ancient perceptions of confinement, and placing this ancient evidence in dialogue with modern prison writing and ethnography, it describes Paul's urgent and unexpectedly joyful letter as a witness to the perplexing art of survival under constraint.

To Do Justice

Author : Randall C. Jimerson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817321233
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book To Do Justice written by Randall C. Jimerson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The biography "A Civil Rights Activist from Montgomery to Zambia: The Career of Reverend Robert E. Hughes" by Randall C Jimerson examines the inter-racial nature of civil rights and liberation movements in Alabama, Southern Rhodesia, and Zambia and connects them on a global scale through the life and career of Revered Robert E. Hughes"--

Bodies of Song

Author : Linda Hess
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199374163
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Song written by Linda Hess and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. "You Must Meet Prahladji!"--2. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Observing Texts -- 3. "True Words of Kabir": Adventures in Authenticity -- 4. In the Jeweler's Bazaar: Malwa's Kabir -- 5. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-first Century: Exploring Theory -- 6. A Scorching Fire, A Cool Pool -- 7. Fighting over Kabir's Dead Body -- 8. Political/Spiritual Kabir -- References -- Index

Everybody Says Freedom

Author : Pete Seeger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393306040
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Everybody Says Freedom written by Pete Seeger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montgomery, Alabama, 1955--the civil rights movement has begun. The authors build a narrative from the words of the people, their photographs and their songs to form an emphasis on triumph in an uncertain age. Photos and music.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road Back

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477168168
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Road Back written by Andrew Roberts and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 gang of teens spread throughout the State, not known to each other, consist of a Drug Dealing Gang, A CarJacking Gang, a Partying Gang of teens, and a Gang of Caucasian teens that smoke angel dust, drink beer and tear up Cemetaries. 85% of each of these gangs get caught at committing crimes they commit, including the leaders of each of these gangs. They all find themselves in Court facing justified or unwarranted sentences. But instead of sentencing them to jail, their lawyers, the prosecutors and the Judges agree to an alternative sentence and stipulates them to participate in a 18 month program called "The Road Back". They all have to follow strict rules and regulations. They all have to maintain, schooling, employment and submit to random drug testing. But through it all, they maintain their agreement and continue on struggling to succeed in a world designed against them.

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Author : Ellen Luchinsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135659265
Total Pages : 1384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library written by Ellen Luchinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.