Freedom rights [electronic resource] : new perspectives on the civil rights movement / edited by Danielle L. McGuire and John Dittmer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson -- Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts -- The Young Women's Christian Association's multiracial activism in the immediate postwar era / Abigail Sara Lewis -- James and Esther Cooper Jackson, communism, and the 1950s black freedom movement / Sara Rzeszutek Haviland -- Till they come back home : transregional families and the politicization of the till generation / Krystal D. Frazier, Stacy Braukman -- Joan Little and the triumph of testimony / Danielle L. McGuire -- Gender, jazz, and justice in cold war freedom movements / Jacqueline Castledine -- EEOC politics and limits on Reagan's civil rights legacy / Emily Zuckerman -- Race and partisanship in criminal disfranchisement laws / Pippa Holloway -- "The community don't know what's good for them" : local politics in the Alabama black belt during the post-civil rights era / George Derek Musgrove and Hasan Kwame Jeffries -- "I want my country back, I want my dream back" : Barack Obama and the appeal of postracial fictions / Brian Ward.

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