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What a mighty power we can be : African American fraternal groups and the struggle for racial equality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skocpol, Theda
Other Authors: Liazos, Ariane, 1976-, Ganz, Marshall, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African American fraternal organizations > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
African Americans > Societies, etc. > History.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • African American fraternalism : a missing chapter in the story of U.S. civic democracy
  • The panorama of African American fraternal federations / with the assistance of Jennifer Lynn Oser
  • African American fraternals as schools for democracy
  • Proprietors, helpmates, and pilgrims in black and white fraternal rituals / by Bayliss Camp and Orit Kent
  • Defending the legal right to organize
  • Black fraternalists and the mid-twentieth-century movement for civil rights
  • The achievements of African American fraternalism.