African American Activism and Political Engagement

Angela Jones is professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York.

Introduction, Angela Jones (Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, USA)

Essays
Slavery, Freedom, and Resistance in the Abolition Movement and the U.S. Visual Imagination,
Martha J. Cutter (University of Connecticut, USA)

“To Live Comfortably from the Fruits of Our Labors”: Black Women and the Early Black Freedom Struggle for Labor Rights, Danielle Phillips-Cunningham (Texas Woman’s University, USA)

The Long Battle against Jim Crow: African American Activism and the History of Desegregation,
Marisela Martinez-Cola (Morehouse College, USA)

African Americans and the Fight for the Vote, Lawrence Goldstone (USA)

The Black Power Movement: The Black Panther Party and Its Transnational Dimensions,
Setsuko Matsuzawa (College of Wooster, USA)

Black Lives Matter: Intersectional Activism and the Future of Black Liberation,
Emmanuel Cannady (University of Notre Dame, USA).

The First Black President: The Contributions and Legacy of Barack Obama, Aaron J. Howell (University of
Mount Union, USA)

Encyclopedia Entries

Abernathy, Ralph David, Sr.
Ableman v. Booth
Abolition of Slavery
Affirmative Action
African American Sororities and Fraternities
African American Vernacular English
Afro-American Council/League
Afrocentrism
Afrofuturism
Ali, Muhammad
Angelou, Maya
Assassination of Fred Hampton
Assassination of Malcolm X
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Audre Lorde Project
Baker, Ella
Baldwin, James
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Black Church
Black Entrepreneurship
The Black Family
Black Liberation Army
Black Liberation Theology
Black Lives Matter
Black Panther Party
Black Press
Black Radical Congress
Black Star Line
Black Women’s Club Movement
Black World
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Browder v. Gayle
Brown, John
Brown v. Board of Education
Buchanan v. Warley
Central Park Five (Exonerated Five)
Chicago Defender, The
Chisholm, Shirley
Civil Disobedience
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil War
Clark, Septima Poinsette
Cleaver, Kathleen
Color of Change
Colorism
Compromise of 1877
Congress of Racial Equality
Congressional Black Caucus
Cooper, Anna Julia
Corrigan v. Buckley
Cotton, Dorothy
Cox, Laverne
Crummell, Alexander
Cullors, Patrisse
Davis, Angela
Davis v. St. Louis Housing Authority
Delany, Martin
DeLarverie, Stormé
Douglass, Frederick
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Employment Discrimination
Environmental Racism
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Evers, Medgar
Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 9981
Fair Housing Act of 1968
Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
Farmer, James L., Jr.
Freedman’s Savings Bank
Freedom Summer
Freedom’s Journal
Garvey, Marcus Mosiah
Garza, Alicia
Gentrification
Gerrymandering
Gideon v. Wainwright
Grandfather Clause
Great Migration
Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Harlem Renaissance
Health Care
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
Height, Dorothy
Hip-Hop
Historically Black Colleges & Universities
HIV/AIDS
Housing Discrimination
Jackson, Jesse
Jim Crow
Johnson, Marsha P.
Jones, Claudia
Jordan, Barbara
Juneteenth
Kaepernick, Colin
Kennedy, Florynce “Flo”
King, Coretta Scott
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Lewis, John
Liberator, The
Literacy
Little Rock Nine
Loving v. Virginia
Lynching
Malcolm X
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Marshall, Thurgood
Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex
McLeod Bethune, Mary
McNeal Turner, Henry
Media Representations
Meredith, James
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Improvement Association
Morgan, Gertrude Wright
Moses, Bob
Murray, Pauli
Music and Black Activism
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Action Network
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Council of Negro Women283 National Equal Rights League
National Housing Act of 1934
National Negro Congress
National Urban League
Negritude
Negro World
Newton, Huey P.
Niagara Movement
North Star, The
Obama, Barack
Obama, Barack: The Election of
Obama, Barack: First Term in Office
Obama, Barack: Second Term in Office
Obama, Michelle
Obama, Michelle: “Let Girls Learn” Campaign
Obama, Michelle: “Let’s Move” Campaign
Obama, Michelle: “Reach Higher” Campaign
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Owens, Jesse
Pan-Africanism
Parks, Rosa
Plessy v. Ferguson
Police Brutality
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Randolph, Asa Philip
Rape
Reconstruction Amendments
Redlining
Reparations
Richardson, Gloria
Robinson, Amelia Boynton
Russwurm, John Brown
Rustin, Bayard
Seale, Bobby
Selma March/Bloody Sunday
Sharecropping
Shelley v. Kraemer
Shuttlesworth, Fred
Sit-Ins
Slave Revolts
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Sports and Black Activism
Stewart, Maria
Stonewall Riots
Stop and Frisk
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Terrell, Mary Church
Till, Murder of Emmett
Tometi, Opal
Trotter, William Monroe
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Ture, Kwame
Turner, Nathanial
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)
Voter Suppression
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Walker, David
Washington, Booker T.
Waters, Maxine
Wells, Ida B.
White Supremacy
White, Walter
Wilkins, Roy
Williams, Hosea
Young, Whitney
Youth Activism

Glossary of Films
Darrien Hunt

Glossary of Organizations
Darrien Hunt

Selected Bibliography

About the Editor and Contributors

Index