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From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Feb 28, 2013

by Jakobi Williams

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In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago and interviews conducted with often reticent former members of the ILBPP, Williams explores how Hampton helped develop racial coalitions between the ILBPP and other local activists and organizations.
Williams also recounts the history of the original Rainbow Coalition, created in response to Richard J. Daley's Democratic machine, to show how the Panthers worked to create an antiracist, anticlass coalition to fight urban renewal, political corruption, and police brutality.

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Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States Apr 1, 2016

by Brian D. Behnken, Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, Jakobi Williams, Alyssa Ribeiro

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Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of community histories—each with their own distinct historical experiences and activisms—to explore group dynamics, differing strategies and activist moments, and the broader quests of these communities for rights and social justice.

The collection is framed around the concept of “activism,” which most fully encompasses the relationships that blacks and Latinos have enjoyed throughout the twentieth century. Wide ranging and pioneering, Civil Rights and Beyond explores black and Latino/a activism from California to Florida, Chicago to Bakersfield—and a host of other communities and cities—to demonstrate the complicated nature of African American–Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States.

Contributors: Brian D. Behnken, Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Alyssa Ribeiro, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, and Jakobi Williams

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The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

by Beth Tompkins Bates, Karen Ferguson, Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Kenneth C. Barnes, James Smethurst, Emilye Crosby, Anthony E. Kaye, James H. Meriwether, Lisa Levenstein, Leslie A. Schwalm, Celia E. Naylor, Stephen G. Hall, Susan M. Reverby, Leslie Brown, Heather Andrea Williams, Martha S. Jones, Marie Tyler-McGraw, Laurie B. Green, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Blair L. M. Kelley, Chad L. Williams, Donna Jean Murch, Luther Adams, Sarah-Jane Mathieu, Gail Williams O'Brien, Kimberley L. Phillips Boehm, Mary G. Rolinson, Erik S. Gellman, Françoise N. Hamlin, Gretchen Long, Kevin K. Gaines, Rebecca Sharpless, Jakobi Williams, Stephanie J. Shaw, Alex Lubin, Kevin Mumford, Crystal R. Sanders, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Melissa L. Cooper, Ira Dworkin, Lane Demas, Ula Yvette Taylor, Kimberly M. Welch, Imani Perry, Traci Parker, Kate Dossett, Aston Gonzalez, A. B. Wilkinson, Libra R. Hilde, Alison M. Parker, Crystal Lynn Webster, Yunxiang Gao, William L. Andrews, Bill V. Mullen, Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Barbara D. Savage, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, Sarah Lynn Patterson

From Book 1: Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics--which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action--by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company.

Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.

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