Street, Joe

The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement

by Street, Joe

0 Type: Book

"From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. In this book, Joe Street argues that the time h…

The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement

by Street, Joe

0 Type: Book

Singing for freedom -- Cultural organizing in the Integrationist Movement, 1961/1964 -- Jazz and radical politics, 1960/1964 -- The 1964 Mississippi Summer Project -- Integrationist cultural organizing in the Black power era, 1965/1969 -- Black cultural nationalism, 1965/1969 --…

The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement

by Street, Joe

0 Type: Book

Singing for freedom -- Cultural organizing in the Integrationist Movement, 1961/1964 -- Jazz and radical politics, 1960/1964 -- The 1964 Mississippi Summer Project -- Integrationist cultural organizing in the Black power era, 1965/1969 -- Black cultural nationalism, 1965/1969 --…

The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement

by Street, Joe

0 Type: Book

From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. In this book, Joe Street argues that the time ha…

The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement

by Street, Joe

0 Type: Book

Offers a lively, well-informed, and perceptive analysis of the links between the postwar African American freedom struggle and various forms of black cultural expression and organizing.

This thesis addresses the use of African American culture as a political weapon in the 1960s civil rights movement. It argues that African American culture was an important weapon for the movement and focuses on how the three major 1960s civil rights organisations - the Student …