{"product_id":"groundwork-local-black-freedom-movements-in-america-9780814782859","title":"Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePathbreaking essays on the power of local activism on the broader Civil Rights movement  Over the last several years  the traditional narrative of the civil rights movement as largely a southern phenomenon  organized primarily by male leaders  that roughly began with the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965  has been complicated by studies that root the movement in smaller communities across the country. These local movements had varying agendas and organizational development  geared to the particular circumstances  resources  and regions in which they operated. Local civil rights activists frequently worked in tandem with the national civil rights movement but often functioned autonomously fromand sometimes even at odds withthe national movement.  Together  the pathbreaking essays in Groundwork teach us that local civil rights activity was a vibrant component of the larger civil rights movement  and contributed greatly to its national successes. Individually  the pieces offer dramatic new insights about the civil rights movement  such as the fact that a militant black youth organization in Milwaukee was led by a white Catholic priest and in Cambridge  Maryland  by a middle-aged black woman; that a group of middle-class  professional black women spearheaded Jackson  Mississippis movement for racial justice and made possible the continuation of the Freedom Rides  and that  despite protests from national headquarters  the Brooklyn chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality staged a dramatic act of civil disobedience at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York.  No previous volume has enabled readers to examine several different local movements together  and in so doing  Groundwork forges a far more comprehensive vision of the black freedom movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647085240373,"sku":"ByrdShop_081478285X","price":22.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814782859.jpg?v=1781688352","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/groundwork-local-black-freedom-movements-in-america-9780814782859","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}