To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812224035 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A solid and persuasive argument on the importance of pursuing multiracial politics of civil rights and economic justice simultaneously. To March for Others makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the long civil rights era."—American Historical Review. To March for Others is also useful as a crash course in the history of the UFW, and it serves as a solid refresher of the civil rights movement's major organizations and leaders, making it useful for undergraduate classes on the civil rights movement and postwar America."—Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"Araiza's focus on coalitions is a welcome contribution to the literature of social movements in the United States."—Journal of American History"A well
. Lauren Araiza is Associate Professor of History at Denison University
The lessons in this eloquent and provocative study apply to a broader understanding of political and ethnic coalition building in the contemporary United States.. SNCC was not the only black organization to support the UFW: later on, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Black Panther Party backed UFW strikes and boycotts against California agribusiness throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s.To March for Others explores the reasons why black activists, who were committed to their own fight for equality during this period, crossed racial, socioeconomic, geographic, and ideological divides to align themselves with a union of predominantly Mexican American farm workers in rural California. Lauren Araiza considers the history, ideology, and political engagement of these five civil rights organizations, representing a broad spectrum of African American activism, and compares their attitudes and approaches to multiracial coalitions. In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinat