Title After the rebellion : black youth, social movement activism, and the post-civil rights generation / Sekou M. Franklin

Published New York : NYU Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents pt. I. Movement activism and the post-civil rights generation -- The world beyond the campus -- From civil rights to anti-apartheid -- The New Haven Youth Movement -- pt. II. The origins of the Black Student Leadership Network -- Organizing for change -- The collapse of the Black Student Leadership Network -- pt. III. Reclaiming our youth: policing and protesting juvenile injustice -- We are labor too Summary "What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad view of black youth and social movement activism. Based on both research from a diverse collection of archives and interviews with youth activists, advocates, and grassroots organizers, this book examines popular mobilization among the generation of activists - principally black students, youth, and young adults - who came of age after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Franklin argues that the political environment in the post-Civil Rights era, along with constraints on social activism, made it particularly difficult for young black activists to start and sustain popular mobilization campaigns. Building on case studies from around the country--including New York, the Carolinas, California, Louisiana, and Baltimore--After the Rebellion explores the inner workings and end results of activist groups such as the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Student Organization for Black Unity, the Free South Africa Campaign, the New Haven Youth Movement, the Black Student Leadership Network, the Juvenile Justice Reform Movement, and the AFL-CIO's Union Summer campaign. Franklin demonstrates how youth-based movements and intergenerational campaigns have attempted to circumvent modern constraints, providing insight into how the very inner workings of these organizations have and have not been effective in creating change and involving youth. A powerful work of both historical and political analysis, After the Rebellion provides a vivid explanation of what happened to the militant impulse of young people since the demobilization of the civil rights and black power movements - a discussion with great implications for the study of generational politics, racial and black politics, and social movements"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century Civil rights movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century Youth, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. HISTORY -- United States -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. African Americans -- Social conditions Civil rights movements Youth, Black Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle. Mouvements des droits civiques -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle. Jeunesse noire américaine -- 20e siècle. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814760611 0814760619 9780814760017 0814760015

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