Winning the war for democracy [electronic resource] : the March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946

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서명/저자사항	Winning the war for democracy [electronic resource]: the March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 / David Lucander.
개인저자	Lucander, David, 1980-.
발행사항	Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : illustrations.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Lucander, David, 1980- Winning the war for democracy 9780252038624
ISBN	9780252096556 025209655X
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
요약	"Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced the Roosevelt Administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Winning the War for Democracy : The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 recalls that triumph, but also looks beyond Randolph and the MOWM's national leadership to focus on the organization's evolution and actions at the local level. Using personal papers of MOWM members such as T.D. McNeal, internal government documents from the Roosevelt administration, and other primary sources, David Lucander highlights how local affiliates fighting for a double victory against fascism and racism helped the national MOWM accrue the political capital it needed to effect change. Lucander details the efforts of grassroots organizers to implement MOWM's program of empowering African Americans via meetings and marches at defense plants and government buildings and, in particular, focuses on the contributions of women activists like Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Throughout he shows how local activities often diverged from policies laid out at MOWM's national office, and how grassroots participants on both sides ignored the rivalry between Randolph and the leadership of the NAACP to align with one-another on the ground"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(개인명)	Randolph, A. Philip(Asa Philip), -- 1889-1979.
주제명(단체명)	March on Washington Movement (Organization) United States. --Committee on Fair Employment Practice.
주제명(지명)	United States --Race relations --History --20th century.
일반주제명	African Americans --Civil rights --History --20th century. Civil rights movements --United States --History --20th century. African Americans --Employment --History --20th century. African Americans --Economic conditions --20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Political Freedom & Security --Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE --Ethnic Studies --African American Studies. HISTORY --United States --20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Political Freedom & Security --Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Civil Rights.
분류기호(DDC)	323.1196073
언어	영어
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