Sonnie, Amy.

Hillbilly nationalists, urban race rebels, and black power : community organizing in radical times / Amy Sonnie and James Tracy ; with a foreword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. - Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2011 - xx, 201 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-201).

The Common Cause Is Freedom : JOIN Community Union and the Transformation of Peggy Terry -- The Fire Next Time : The Short Life of the Young Patriots and the Original Rainbow Coalition -- Pedagogy of the Streets : Rising Up Angry -- Lightening on the Eastern Seaboard : October 4th Organization and White Lightening. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4.

"The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s, in a deeply sourced narrative history"--P. [4] of cover.

9781935554660 1935554662

2011034252


JOIN Community Union.
Young Patriots Organization.
Rising Up Angry (Organization)
White Lightning (Organization)
October 4th Organization.


Community organization--History--United States--20th century.
Social movements--History--United States--20th century.
Poor whites--Political activity--History--United States--20th century.
New Left--History--United States--20th century.
Radicalism--History--United States--20th century.

HN90.C6 / S66 2011