African Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576078372)

This handbook provides a thorough treatment of the various mechanisms African Americans have used to participate in U.S. political affairs from the colonial era to the present.

With contributions by several of the field's experts, this concise, provocative volume explores the evolution and current status of African American political action. Focusing on distinct types of activity (protest politics, grassroots movements, electoral politics, political office holding), it charts the unique development of African Americans as they progressed from enslavement by whites to empowerment as citizens to an ever-growing influence on elections.

As the book vividly demonstrates, African Americans' efforts to act on their own political behalf didn't begin in the 1960s. Even while enslaved, black people courageously launched petitions, instigated strikes on plantations, and staged full-blown revolts, creating a legacy of activism that expanded through the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the post-World War II civil rights movement, and into the present.

Author: Minion K. C. Morrison
ISBN-10: 157607837X
ISBN-13: 9781576078372
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2003
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 10.02h x 5.16w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2004 pg. 342
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2004 pg. 140