Download Ebook Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Some people might be chuckling when considering you reviewing Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries in your spare time. Some might be appreciated of you. And also some could really want be like you who have reading hobby. What regarding your personal feel? Have you felt right? Reading Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries is a demand as well as a hobby at once. This problem is the on that particular will certainly make you really feel that you should read. If you know are trying to find guide qualified Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries as the option of reading, you could find below.
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Download Ebook Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
This is it the book Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries to be best seller just recently. We provide you the most effective offer by obtaining the amazing book Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries in this web site. This Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries will certainly not only be the sort of book that is tough to discover. In this site, all kinds of books are given. You can search title by title, writer by writer, as well as publisher by author to discover the very best book Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries that you could read now.
Obtaining the e-books Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries now is not sort of challenging means. You could not only choosing publication store or collection or borrowing from your buddies to read them. This is a really simple way to exactly get the publication by on-line. This online publication Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries can be one of the alternatives to accompany you when having extra time. It will certainly not squander your time. Believe me, guide will reveal you brand-new thing to review. Just spend little time to open this on-line publication Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries and read them any place you are now.
Sooner you get the e-book Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries, earlier you could enjoy checking out the publication. It will be your turn to maintain downloading guide Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries in given link. This way, you can actually choose that is offered to get your own publication online. Here, be the very first to obtain the publication qualified Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries as well as be the initial to recognize how the writer suggests the message and knowledge for you.
It will certainly believe when you are visiting choose this e-book. This impressive Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries e-book could be checked out entirely in particular time relying on just how often you open as well as review them. One to keep in mind is that every publication has their very own production to get by each reader. So, be the excellent reader and also be a much better individual after reading this book Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights And Black Power In Alabama's Black Belt, By Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association
Early in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black, independent political party called the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). The group, whose ballot symbol was a snarling black panther, was formed in part to protest the barriers to black enfranchisement that had for decades kept every single African American of voting age off the county’s registration books. Even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, most African Americans in this overwhelmingly black county remained too scared even to try to register. Their fear stemmed from the county’s long, bloody history of whites retaliating against blacks who strove to exert the freedom granted to them after the Civil War.
Amid this environment of intimidation and disempowerment, African Americans in Lowndes County viewed the LCFO as the best vehicle for concrete change. Their radical experiment in democratic politics inspired black people throughout the country, from SNCC organizer Stokely Carmichael who used the Lowndes County program as the blueprint for Black Power, to California-based activists Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, who adopted the LCFO panther as the namesake for their new, grassroots organization: the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This party and its adopted symbol went on to become the national organization of black militancy in the 1960s and 1970s, yet long-obscured is the crucial role that Lowndes County “historically a bastion of white supremacy” played in spurring black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.
Drawing on an impressive array of sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents and SNCC activists, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells, for the first time, the remarkable full story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement. Bridging the gaping hole in the literature between civil rights organizing and Black Power politics, Bloody Lowndes offers a new paradigm for understanding the civil rights movement.
- Sales Rank: #420520 in Books
- Published on: 2010
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.96" h x .90" w x 6.06" l, 1.12 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 372 pages
Review
“Bloody Lowndes is an important book. The author’s careful analysis of the 1966 election is both readable and quite useful to understanding the importance of the moment.”
“Jeffries has written the book historians of the black freedom movement have been waiting for. His beautifully written account rescues Lowndes County from its role as merely a backdrop to ‘Black Power,’ to being one of the key battlegrounds for democracy in the United States. Here are local people whose local struggles have contributed mightily to the kind of politics we desperately need in the Obama age—the politics of ‘freedom democracy,’ a politics born in Reconstruction, rooted in social justice and human rights, and honed in the Alabama cotton belt.”
-Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"Jeffries' book sets a new standard for the political history of African Americans in the rural South by refocusing on the mechanics of power taken, used, lost, and retaken between blacks and whites, rather than the larger fabric of social and cultural politics. Given the stark and still unrelieved inequalities of the black belt, this is a salutary stance." -Van Gosse,Journal of Southern History
“Hasan Kwame Jeffries’ Bloody Lowndes provides a nuanced portrait of the marriage between federal policy initiatives and local activism in the battle to dismantle Jim Crow, focusing on the months from March 1965 through November 1966 when SNCC workers, led by Stokely Carmichael, were active in Lowndes County, Alabama.”-American Studies
“Without succumbing to the temptation to paint the struggle for black equality in broad strokes, Jeffries isolates the locus of the issues that framed the movement and uses these to explain how, through a variety of social networks, the movement spread regionally and ultimately nationally... is an exceptional piece of scholarship. Jeffries has produced an important work that will unquestionably reshape the debate over the origins and legacy of the civil rights and black power movements for years to come.” -Journal of American History
“Jeffries’s Bloody Lowndes is an important contribution to the literature of the African American freedom struggle. Jeffries reveals the deep historical roots of black struggles against racial and economic oppression in the Black Belt. He makes clear that the civil rights reforms of the 1960s were insufficient responses to the ‘freedom politics’ that spawned the Lowndes County Freedom Organization—the first Black Panther Party.”
“Excellent scholarship, important history, and an invaluable contribution to understanding current and future “conversations” on race and politics in a dynamically changing political environment.”
-Charles V. Hamilton,co-author of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
“Jeffries is at the top of a very short list of ‘young lions’ paving the way for a new interpretation of the history of the Civil Rights-Black Power movement. His work on the legendary Lowndes County Freedom Organization is outstanding in terms of the breadth and carefulness of research, depth and clarity of conceptualization, organization and presentation of material, and the originality and the wealth of the results.”
-Komozi Woodard,author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics
“An extensively researched, well-written, and extremely important book that will make a tremendous contribution to the historiography of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.”
-Emilye Crosby,author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
“Jeffries examines the topic more thoroughly and in greater depth than any previous study, pressing the narrative back to Reconstruction but focusing most of his narrative and analysis on the mid-1960s and 1970s. The research is wide-ranging and in great depth, both in archival and oral history sources. . .this book is a needed and important addition to the historiography of the Civil Rights Movement.”
-CHOICE
Most helpful customer reviews
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Finally, we have the story of the birth of the Black Panther in the Deep South
By Komozi Woodard
Finally, we have the epic story of the initial Black Panther experiment in the Deep South. The brilliant historian and gifted writer Hasan Kwame Jeffries has written a powerful, persuasive and riveting narrative of the transformation of Civil Rights into Black Power in Alabama's "Bloody Lowndes." The history of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) is an epic tale; and Professor Jeffries has not missed the rich nuances of individual, social and political history in the narrative of this important story. Since the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Lowndes County is legendary, Mr. Jeffries has the formidable challenge of transforming legend into history.
Hasan Jeffries is at the top of a very short list of "young lions" paving the way for a new interpretation of the history of the Civil Rights-Black Power movement. His work on the legendary Lowndes County Freedom Organization is outstanding in terms of the breadth and carefulness of research, depth and clarity of conceptualization, organization and presentation of material, and the originality and the wealth of the results.
For the sake of this discussion, historians may be divided into roughly three groups. One group interprets the epic dimensions of the black freedom movement captured in biographies of such figures as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. set on the national stage of American history. By contrast, another emerging group interprets the local and grassroots dimensions of the freedom movement captured in the portraits of such figures as Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Richardson and Ella Baker. More importantly, there is a third but smaller group that sees epic dimensions in the history of the grassroots. This group explains the link between the indigenous organizing traditions at the local and regional levels and the national stage of history. This third group was pioneered by such historians as William Chafe, John Dittmer and Charles Payne; and Hasan Jeffries has earned his place in that pivotal circle of scholars.
For some time the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) has been the stuff of tall tales. We gained a few glimpses of those stories in the priceless memoirs of the activists who fashioned the foundation for the first Black Panther Party, for example the autobiographies of Cleveland Sellers and Stokely Carmichael. However, since most activists have not written their memoirs it has been difficult to imagine the whole story that unfolded beyond those important individuals. To make matters worse, no one had access to the rich memories of the score of activists who pioneered that pioneering Black Power experiment. Finally, we have that story in the form of a social and political history; and fortunately, it has been crafted by a scholar who has not lost the art of writing history. The history of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) is an epic tale; and Professor Jeffries has not missed the rich nuances of individual, social and political history in the narrative of this important story. Since the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Lowndes County is legendary, Mr. Jeffries has the formidable challenge of transforming legend into history.
Ever since SNCC introduced the Black Power slogan in the midst of the campaign in Lowndes County, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization has been the baseline for the study of the Black Power movement. Hasan Jeffries has introduced a new level of intellectual rigor to that historical moment. And Jeffries`s findings are part of a major reinterpretation of the relationship between Civil Rights and Black Power as well as between the Lowndes County movement and SNCC. Going beyond the conventional wisdom about the role of Stokely Carmichael and SNCC at that crucial moment, Jeffries has also been distinctly meticulous in documenting the development of local leadership in Lowndes County. The interviews he has amassed are unprecedented: no other scholar has been able to interview those pioneer activists. In my judgment, alongside John Dittmer's Local People, Charles Payne's I've Got the Light of Freedom has set the standard for civil rights scholarship. Hasan Jeffries's work on Alabama is the only work that rises to the standard set by Professors John Dittmer and Charles Payne. Indeed, Jeffries may do for the freedom movement history of Lowndes County, Alabama what Payne did for the Greenwood Mississippi movement.
This book will set a high standard for a new generation of writing about the Sixties. Hasan Jeffries argues that the social and political revolution in the Black Revolt of the 1960s was generations in the making; and he traces its sources back to Emancipation and Reconstruction. He suggests that the layers of social fabric, kinship networks and institution-building that developed generation after generation between the first and the second Reconstructions provided the resources for the arduous battle for democracy not only in Lowndes County and also in the surrounding Alabama counties as local people and SNCC organizers joined forces to develop the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. This is the story of the transformation of a local social movement into a political party that captured the national imagination of the Black Revolt.
In the heated debates about the geography of the Black Revolt, no one has demonstrated as well as this book how the freedom movement easily reached from one region to another through the kinship ties, social networks and churches. For instance, Professor Jeffries explores the contours of the migration links between Alabama and Detroit that developed into vital supply lines for resource mobilization in the era of Black Power. This may help explain why Rosa Parks migrated to Detroit and why Rap Brown, who organized in Alabama, was so beloved during the 1967 Detroit uprising.To return to the parallels between the historians who wrote the story of the Mississippi Movement and this story of the Alabama Movement, John Dittmer and Charles Payne crafted their histories on the basis of rich interviews with the movement participants; Hasan Jeffries has crafted this rich history on the basis of interviews with not only the SNCC pioneers but also the indigenous individuals of Alabama who made that history together. Given those rich sources, Hasan Jeffries is able to examine the origins of Black Power in Lowndes by allowing the readers to appreciate the social and cultural underpinnings of that rural social movement, including its barely visible roots in kinship and community in the "Alabama Diaspora" that reached from Lowndes to the regional urban centers in Montgomery, Selma and Mobile and as far as Detroit, Michigan. (Indeed, he shows us one satellite group in Ann Arbor, Michigan.) Jeffries tells us that as the movement took hold, teams of Lowndes activists toured Detroit where transplanted Lowndes families and social clubs established networks of resources for material and spiritual support as the movement struggled through the tortuous ordeal of white terrorism. As people were fired for voter registration and political organizing, the economic problems of unemployment and evictions mounted. In response, Alabama's transplanted black people in Detroit gathered clothing, food and money to support the Lowndes County Freedom Organization.
Teachers will love to teach this book because it brings together both the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements, giving generous consideration to the political dynamics of both those streams of the freedom struggle. Indeed, this is perhaps the best history of how Black Power developed in the womb of Civil Rights. Moreover, teachers will love to teach this book because it explains how the various elements of the 1960s were fused together at the level of local struggle; thus, we see how the War on Poverty, school desegregation, the Justice Department, the Supreme Court and Dr. King's SCLC--even the New Deal's AAA, shaped the contours of the freedom movement in Lowndes County, Alabama. Indeed, Hasan Jeffries demonstrates that only close attention to the contours of the Black Revolt can explain how civil rights and women's rights, desegregation and legal protection, housing construction and job training fused with issues of self-defense into the initial agenda of Black Power politics. Above all, this study shows that the atmospheric sweep of formal logic is no match for detailed historical facts in explaining how the post-Civil Rights American political culture came into existence. In other words, history has another important form of logic to teach us. If Goethe's Faust is right that theory is gray compared to the green stuff of life, then at its best history is the green stuff. And Professor Jeffries presents us with the right stuff on every page.
Clay Carson observed that "Social movements ultimately fail, at least in [the] minds of many committed participants. As radicals and revolutionaries have discovered throughout history, even the most successful movements generate aspirations that cannot be fulfilled." In the end Hasan Jeffries analyzes the Faustian bargains that key leaders of the LCFO made maneuvering in the political arena that transformed their social movement into an ethnic party as they sacrificed the democratic processes of grassroots participation for electoral victory.
In sum, this book is full of numerous judicious observations, analyses, propositions and conclusions; and teachers will love those rich aspects of the book as well.
This manuscript is one of the most important works in a burgeoning generation of Black Power Studies. I reach that assessment without any exaggeration because this book is perhaps the only study thus far that might aspire to the stature of history writing and analysis established by John Dittmer and Charles Payne.
Above all, the importance of the work that Hasan Jeffries has completed and the impact that this publication will have in this field of American history cannot be overstated. No doubt, Hasan Jeffries's manuscript is one of the best that I've read in a number of years. This is a landmark book; and our field will benefit immensely from its insightful and meticulous interpretation.
Komozi Woodard
Sarah Lawrence College
Esther Raushenbush Professor
American History, Public Policy and Africana Studies
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
History at its best
By Okra Queen
A bold and insightful portrait of the little Alabama county that changed the world. I live in Lowndes County, Alabama and was thrilled that someone put their time and talents into writing a history that's readable and fascinating. Loved it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great research, great writing
By Chris
If you have a general understanding of the civil rights movement but want to take a closer look at how one particular community mobilized and progressed, this book is a great place to start. You will feel all sorts of emotions while reading this book, from anger to pride to disappointment to hope. Jeffries' writing is superb, as is his research. This is just a very, very good book.
The only challenge to following a book like this is the dearth of well-known players, which can make it tough to remember who did what. But Jeffries does a wonderful job of introducing us to the movement leaders, as well as the men and women who worked tirelessly to sustain white supremacy. I felt like I was almost part of the community while reading the book, and not every history book can totally immerse the reader like that.
In terms of style, he provides a nice introduction of race relations in Lowndes County from Reconstruction to the 1960s, then gets into great detail of the movement from 1965-1966, following both a chronological and thematic approach that made it a smooth read and easy to follow. His last chapter covered a very broad period almost up to the present. And each chapter ends with a nice summary of what you just read.
I learned about the great grassroots work done by SNCC and Stokely Carmichael, as well as the particular structural impediments to progress that were built into these rural southern communities. Despite all the effort to change the education, law enforcement, electoral and political systems in Lowndes County, progress was remarkably slow because of the power wielded by a determined, united minority of whites. Courageous activists made great progress toward righting many wrongs, but the system and various other factors limited the advancements.
This is a great book by a young historian, and I hope there's more from him in the future.
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries PDF
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries EPub
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Doc
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries iBooks
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries rtf
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Mobipocket
Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt, by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar