BOOKS by Matthew J Countryman

Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia more books like this

by Matthew J Countryman

Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. Although Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice in the years between World ...

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Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 more books like this

by Jeanne F Theoharis (Editor), Komozi Woodard (Editor), Matthew J Countryman (Editor)

The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 US history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged triumphant in the early 1960s, only to be derailed by the twin forces of black power and white backlash ...

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