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Author Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.

Title Charles H. Houston : an interdisciplinary study of civil rights leadership / edited by James L. Conyers
Published Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Charles Hamilton Houston: An Efficacious Reflexive Analysis -- James L. Conyers, Jr. -- Part I. Philosophical Foundations -- Chapter 2: In Defense of Voluntary Desegregation: All Things Are Not Equal -- Derek W. Black -- Chapter 3: "A Lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite to society" -- John C. Brittain -- Chapter 4: What the Right Learned from Charles Houston That the Left Did Not -- Lewis R. Gordon -- Part II. Constructive Engagement -- Chapter 5: The Historical Legacy of the Nadir and Houstonian Jurisprudence in the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement -- Katherine Bankole-Medina -- Chapter 6: Charles Hamilton Houston and Post-New Negro Movement Authority: The Socio-Literary History of a Legal Warrior -- Christel N. Temple -- Part III. Enduring Contributions -- Chapter 7: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle Against Lynching in the United States, 1930-1939 -- Julius E. Thompson -- Chapter 8: African American Voices Should Speak Loudly and Proudly to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Fundamentally Unfair Discrimination -- L. Darnell Weeden -- Chapter 9: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Development of the NAACP's Legal Assault on Jim Crow: The Texas White Primary as a Case Study -- Cary D. Wintz -- Chapter 10: Neo-Houstonian Studies: The Nation of Islam, Edward W. Jacko, Jr. and the Struggle for Afro-Muslim Civil Liberties -- Malachi D. Crawford
Summary "This edited collection focuses on the philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of Charles H. Houston, a legal scholar activist who played an important role in the civil rights movement"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index
Notes English
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
HISTORY -- Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Conyers, James L
ISBN 9780739143582
0739143581
9780739143605
0739143603
1283538970
9781283538978
9786613851420
6613851426