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Power to the poor : Black-Brown coalition and the fight for economic justice, 1960-1974 Cover Image E-book

Power to the poor : Black-Brown coalition and the fight for economic justice, 1960-1974

Mantler, Gordon Keith 1972- (author.).

Summary: The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.

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  • ISBN: 1469608065
  • ISBN: 9781469608068
  • ISBN: 0807838519
  • ISBN: 9780807838518
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (371 pages : illustrations)
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

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African Americans Economic conditions 20th century
Coalitions United States History 20th century
Ethnicity Political aspects United States History 20th century
Hispanic Americans Economic conditions 20th century
Political activists United States Biography
Poverty Political aspects United States History 20th century
Social justice United States History 20th century
Social movements United States History 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
United States Economic conditions 1961-1971
United States Race relations History 20th century
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