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Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977
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Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977
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by Winston Grady-Willis and Winston Grady-Willis
Sales Rank : 1225614
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press May 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822337916
ISBN-13: 978-0822337911
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Product Review
“[A] comprehensive, penetrating history of black activism in Atlanta. . . . A thoughtful interpretation of vital themes in the black experience that should encourage further discussion and debate. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”
--H. Shapiro, Choice
“This book makes a welcome contribution to the history of Black Power but also to the history of Atlanta. Even as black activists in Atlanta developed an important ideological understanding of Black Power, Grady-Willis shows how the efforts of a variety of black men, women, and youth to challenge white domination made a significant contribution to social justice in the city and in the South.”
--Sarah Mercer Judson, Georgia Historical Quarterly
“Grady-Willis offers a comprehensive, penetrating history of black activism in Atlanta from 1960 to the late 1970s. . . . A thoughtful interpretation of vital themes in the bladck experience that should encourage further discussion and debate.”
--H. Shapiro, Choice
Product Description
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless narrative stretching from the student nonviolent direct action movement and the first experiments in urban field organizing through efforts to define and realize the meaning of Black Power to the reemergence of Black women-centered activism. The work of African Americans in Atlanta, Grady-Willis argues, was crucial to the broader development of late-twentieth-century Black freedom struggles.
Grady-Willis describes Black activism within a framework of human rights rather than in terms of civil rights. As he demonstrates, civil rights were only one part of a larger struggle for self-determination, a fight to dismantle a system of inequalities that he conceptualizes as “apartheid structures.” Drawing on archival research and interviews with activists of the 1960s and 1970s, he illuminates a wide range of activities, organizations, and achievements, including the neighborhood-based efforts of Atlanta’s Black working poor, clandestine associations such as the African American women’s group Sojourner South, and the establishment of autonomous Black intellectual institutions such as the Institute of the Black World. Grady-Willis’s chronicle of the politics within the Black freedom movement in Atlanta brings to light overlapping ideologies, gender and class tensions, and conflicts over divergent policies, strategies, and tactics. It also highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take center stage alongside well-known figures in Challenging U.S. Apartheid. Women, who played central roles in the human rights struggle in Atlanta, are at the foreground of this history.
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