Groundwork local black freedom movements in America (New York University, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"They told us our kids were stupid": Ruth Batson and the educational movement in Boston - Jeanne Theoharis -- - "Drive awhile for freedom": Brooklyn CORE's 1964 stall-in and public discourses on protest violence - Brian Purnell -- - Message from the grassroots: the black power experiment in Newark, New Jersey - Komozi Woodard -- - Gloria Richardson and the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland - Peter B. Levy -- - We've come a long way: Septima Clark, the warings, and the changing civil rights movement - Katherine Mellen Charron -- - Organizing for more than the vote: the political radicalization of local people in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1965-1966 - Hasan Kwame Jeffries -- - "God's appointed savior": Charles Evers's use of local movements for national stature - Emilye Crosby -- - Local women and the civil rights movement in Mississippi: re-visioning Womanpower Unlimited - Tiyi Morris -- - The stirrings of the modern civil rights movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943-1953 - Michael Washington -- - "We cannot wait for understanding to come to us": community activists respond to violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School, 1940-1941 - Karen Miller -- - "Not a color, but an attitude": Father James Groppi and black power politics in Milwaukee - Patrick Jones -- - Practical internationalists: the story of the Des Moines, Iowa, Black Panther Party - Reynaldo Anderson -- - Inside the Panther revolution: the black freedom movement and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California - Robyn Ceanne Spencer