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Schooling Jim Crow: the Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and Roots of Black Protest Politics
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Schooling Jim Crow: the Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and Roots of Black Protest Politics
Current price: $45.00
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Schooling Jim Crow: the Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and Roots of Black Protest Politics
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In this pathbreaking book, Jay Driskell explores the changes in black political consciousness that made the NAACP’s grassroots campaign possible at a time when most black southerners could not vote, let alone demand schools. He reveals how black Atlantans transformed a reactionary politics of respectability into a militant force for change. Contributing to this militancy were understandings of class and gender transformed by decades of racially segregated urban development, the 1906 Atlanta race riot, Georgia’s disfranchisement campaign of 1908, and the upheavals of World War I. On this cultural foundation, black Atlantans built a new urban black politics that would become the model for the NAACP’s political strategy well into the twentieth century.