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Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta And Black Struggles For Human Rights, 19601977,Used
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Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the citys first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. GradyWillis provides a seamless narrative stretching from the student nonviolent direct action movement and the first experiments in urban field organizing through efforts to define and realize the meaning of Black Power to the reemergence of Black womencentered activism. The work of African Americans in Atlanta, GradyWillis argues, was crucial to the broader development of latetwentiethcentury Black freedom struggles.GradyWillis describes Black activism within a framework of human rights rather than in terms of civil rights. As he demonstrates, civil rights were only one part of a larger struggle for selfdetermination, a fight to dismantle a system of inequalities that he conceptualizes as apartheid structures. Drawing on archival research and interviews with activists of the 1960s and 1970s, he illuminates a wide range of activities, organizations, and achievements, including the neighborhoodbased efforts of Atlantas Black working poor, clandestine associations such as the African American womens group Sojourner South, and the establishment of autonomous Black intellectual institutions such as the Institute of the Black World. GradyWilliss chronicle of the politics within the Black freedom movement in Atlanta brings to light overlapping ideologies, gender and class tensions, and conflicts over divergent policies, strategies, and tactics. It also highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take center stage alongside wellknown figures in Challenging U.S. Apartheid. Women, who played central roles in the human rights struggle in Atlanta, are at the foreground of this history.
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