From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968

From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement on Chicago’s West Side, 1957-1968 Contributing to a new wave of studies seeking to better understand the emergence of postwar civil rights activism on the local level, this paper excavates the origins of a differ...

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spelling cairn-RFEA_116_0051RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2008-2-page-51?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/e.rfea.116.0051 From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968 Diamond, Andrew2008 brutalités policièresChicagoculture des jeunesdélinquance juvénilegangs de rueidentité racialemouvement pour les droits civiquespouvoir noirracismeBlack PowerChicagoCivil Rights Movementjuvenile delinquencypolice brutalityracial identityracismstreet gangsyouth culturefre Revue française d’études américaines | 116 | 2 | 2008-09-04 | p. 51-65 | 0397-7870 RFEA_11653 From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement on Chicago’s West Side, 1957-1968 Contributing to a new wave of studies seeking to better understand the emergence of postwar civil rights activism on the local level, this paper excavates the origins of a different spirit of black militancy in Chicago’s West Side ghetto in the confrontations of youths with indignities they faced in the schools and streets of the Lawndale community from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. In particular, it traces the formation of large black fighting gangs in this area, arguing that the militant style and racial solidarity articulated by these youth gangs became a vital source of inspiration for the broader struggle for civil rights that was developing here. Hence, when Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference took their campaign against segregation to the West Side of Chicago in 1966, they found another movement here—one that diverged from the course of nonviolence but which nonetheless produced some powerful forms of political consciousness and action.Cairn free access
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topic brutalités policières
Chicago
culture des jeunes
délinquance juvénile
gangs de rue
identité raciale
mouvement pour les droits civiques
pouvoir noir
racisme
Black Power
Chicago
Civil Rights Movement
juvenile delinquency
police brutality
racial identity
racism
street gangs
youth culture
spellingShingle brutalités policières
Chicago
culture des jeunes
délinquance juvénile
gangs de rue
identité raciale
mouvement pour les droits civiques
pouvoir noir
racisme
Black Power
Chicago
Civil Rights Movement
juvenile delinquency
police brutality
racial identity
racism
street gangs
youth culture
Diamond, Andrew
From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
topic_facet brutalités policières
Chicago
culture des jeunes
délinquance juvénile
gangs de rue
identité raciale
mouvement pour les droits civiques
pouvoir noir
racisme
Black Power
Chicago
Civil Rights Movement
juvenile delinquency
police brutality
racial identity
racism
street gangs
youth culture
description From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement on Chicago’s West Side, 1957-1968 Contributing to a new wave of studies seeking to better understand the emergence of postwar civil rights activism on the local level, this paper excavates the origins of a different spirit of black militancy in Chicago’s West Side ghetto in the confrontations of youths with indignities they faced in the schools and streets of the Lawndale community from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s. In particular, it traces the formation of large black fighting gangs in this area, arguing that the militant style and racial solidarity articulated by these youth gangs became a vital source of inspiration for the broader struggle for civil rights that was developing here. Hence, when Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference took their campaign against segregation to the West Side of Chicago in 1966, they found another movement here—one that diverged from the course of nonviolence but which nonetheless produced some powerful forms of political consciousness and action.
author Diamond, Andrew
author_facet Diamond, Andrew
author_sort Diamond, Andrew
title From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
title_short From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
title_full From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
title_fullStr From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
title_full_unstemmed From Fighting Gangs to Black Nations: Race, Power, and the Other Civil Rights Movement in Chicago's West Side Ghetto, 1957-1968
title_sort from fighting gangs to black nations: race, power, and the other civil rights movement in chicago's west side ghetto, 1957-1968
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