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Agitations: Ideologies and Strategies in African American Politics
Contributor(s): Anderson, Kevin R. (Author)
ISBN: 1557289263     ISBN-13: 9781557289261
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.20  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 323.119
LCCN: 2009047714
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.62" W x 9.3" (1.04 lbs) 263 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
 
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Though the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were unified in their common idea of resistance to oppression, these groups fought their battles on multiple fronts. The NAACP filed lawsuits and aggressively lobbied Congress and state legislatures, while Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC challenged the racial status quo through nonviolent mass action, and the SNCC focused on community empowerment activities. In Agitations, Kevin Anderson studies these various activities in order to trace the ideological foundations of these groups and to understand how diversity among African Americans created multiple political strategies.

Agitations goes beyond the traditionally acknowledged divide between integrationist and accommodationist wings of African American politics to explore the diverse fundamental ideologies and strategic outcomes among African American activists that still define, influence, and complicate political life today.