Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
- ISBN-10
- 1935554662
- ISBN-13
- 9781935554660
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Authors
- Amy Sonnie, James Tracy
Description
The historians of the late 1960s have emphasised the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries and even racists. Tracy and Amy Sonnie have been interviewing activists from the 1960s for nearly 10 years and here reject this narrative, showing how working-class whites, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, fought inequality in the 1960s.
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