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Sowing the seeds for the civil rights movement -- Four leaders for freedom -- The crisis is born -- Organizing for the cause -- The fearless Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Charles Hamilton: learning from the best -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a timely leader

In the roughly two-decade-long period after the American Civil War, a cadre of Black Reconstruction politicians found the courage to stand and attempt to effect change against powerful oppositionâ€"and at a time when the United States was not ready. The contributions of these brave souls set the stage for the Civil Rights movement and heightened the world's consciousness of the need for equality

The repression historically faced by African Americans has had an important effect on the nature of the group's participation in foreign affairs. This book offers a much-needed and long-overdue survey of the field, setting the stage for further exploration and analysis. Chapters discuss the Congressional Black Caucus and TransAfrica Forum; African American political organizations and Africa; Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice; the evaporation of strong black voices in events such as those in Rwanda and Darfur; and self-critical Pan Africanism. [From Amazon.com] ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Early Life: Community History, Schooling -- 2. Racial Environment: Legal Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson -- 3. Social Unrest: Lynching, Desegregation Efforts, Eugenics -- 4. Working: First Demonstration, Montgomery Boycott, Life in Hopewell -- 5. Conflict: Sit-Ins and Legal Battles, KKK Confrontation, Ethanol Plant -- 6. National Involvement: Danville, Birmingham, Selma and Washington, D.C. -- 7. Political: Election, First African American Mayor, Ethanol -- 8. Recognition -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

At head of title: The works of F. Marion Crawford. ; Mode of access: Internet.

At head of title: The works of F. Marion Crawford. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This thesis correlates the major issues discussed in the 1880 Senate Report #693 (the Voorhees Committee), an investigation into "The Causes of the Removal of the Negro from the Southern States to the Northern States" with the extraordinary effectiveness of black politicians in Nicodemus, Kansas . For the first time in United States history, enough African Americans had gathered in a locale--Graham County, Kansas--to affect issues of crucial ideological and financial importance to the surrounding whites. The 1700 pages of testimony presented by the Voorhees Committee Report illustrated the complexity of post-Reconstruction racial tensions on a national level while Nicodemus depicted a microcosm of blacks' attempts to form beneficial alliances with whites on a local level. This study, based on the Voorhees Committee testimony and an analysis of political activity in Graham County as reported by Kansas newspapers, argues that the testimony heard by the Voorhees Committee was a harbinger of national African American activism. Simultaneously, blacks in Nicodemus proved they could predominate over whites regarding issues indigenous to the settlement of the West

A long-overdue introduction to the multifaceted nature of African American participation in global affairs.