Yes, we did? : from King's dream to Obama's promise / Cynthia Griggs Fleming.
Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. Not since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has the United States seen such remarkable advances. During Obama's historic campaign, however, prominent African Americans voiced concern about his candidacy, demonstrating a divided agenda among black political leaders. Cynthia Fleming examines the expansion of black leadership from grassroots to the national arena, beginning with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois and progressing through contemporary leaders including Harold Ford Jr., Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson Jr., and Barack Obama. She emphasizes socioeconomic status, female black leadership, media influence, black conservatism, and generational conflict. Fleming had unprecedented access to a wide range of activists, including Carol Mosley Braun, Al Sharpton, and John Hope Franklin. Among those interviewed were community activists and scholars, as well as former freedom riders, sit-in activists, and others who were intimately involved in the civil rights struggle.
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- ISBN: 9780813125602 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
- ISBN: 081312560X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxi, 281 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Yes, we can -- Black leadership in historical perspective -- After King, where do we go from here? -- The media and the message -- From protest to inclusion -- The continuing challenge of Black economic underdevelopment -- Black culture then and now -- Black community and Black identity -- A crisis of victory. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | E 185.6 .F56 2009 | 30540790 | General Collection | Available | - |