The Georgia of the North

Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey

Hettie V. Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1939-9 (ISBN)

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The Georgia of the North is a historical narrative about Black women and the long civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Specifically, the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances at the local and national level and their role in securing the passage of progressive civil rights legislation in the Garden State is at the core of this book. This narrative is largely defined by a central question: How and why did New Jersey’s Black leaders, community members, and women in particular, affect major civil rights legislation, legal equality, and integration a decade before the Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas decision? In this analysis, the history of the early Black freedom struggle in New Jersey is predicated on the argument that the Civil Rights Movement began in New Jersey, and that Black women were central actors in this struggle.

HETTIE V. WILLIAMS is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. She is the former president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and has authored and edited six books and several essays, articles, and book chapters.

CoverSeries EditorsTitle PageCopyrightDedicationContentsList of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. “Bury Me in a Free Land”: The Great Migration and the Rise of the Black Population in the Garden State2. “Still I’ll Rise”: Black Community Institutions and the Rise of the Black Professional Class in New Jersey3. “A Young Colored Girl’s Haven from Prejudice”: The Montclair YWCA and the Black Women’s Club Movement in New Jersey4. “The Urgency of the Hour Was with Us”: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and the Civil Rights Movement in the North5. “Now Is the Time to Plan for Your Future”: Sara Spencer Washington’s Boardwalk Empire and the Black Freedom Struggle in Atlantic City6. “Between These Two Extremes”: Marion Thompson Wright and the Civil Rights Movement in New JerseyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 color & 20 B-W illustrations, & 6 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-1939-0 / 1978819390
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1939-9 / 9781978819399
Zustand	Neuware