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Challenging Segregation
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Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Protest
desegregation case studies
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Early Civil Rights
Early Civil Rights Era
Early Civil Rights Protest
Early Civil Rights Struggles
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Graham Case
historical analysis of pre-Brown protests
Johnson County
Local NAACP
master
Master Narrative
montgomery
Montgomery Bus Boycott
movement
NAACP Youth Council
narrative
Oklahoma City
Oliver Brown
oral history research
protest
qualitative methodology
Racial Segregation
rights
School Segregation
social movement theory
South Park
Sumner High School
Ta Te
Walker School
Product details
- ISBN 9781594514586
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that help us understand the beginnings of the civil rights struggle before it became a mass movement. She brings to light many important but largely forgotten events, such as the often overlooked 1950s Oklahoma sit-in protests that provided a model for the better-known Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. This book's significance lies in its challenge to perspectives that dominate scholarship on the civil rights movement. The broader concepts illustrated-including agency, culture, social structure, and situations-throughout this book open up substantially more of the complexity of the civil rights struggle. This book employs a methodology for analyzing not just the civil rights movement but other social movements and, indeed, social change in general.
Jean Van Delinder is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies at Oklahoma State University.
