{"product_id":"hillbilly-nationalists-urban-race-rebels-and-black-power-updated-and-revised-interracial-solidarity-in-1960s-70s-new-left-organizing-9781612199412","title":"Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Updated and Revised: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPDATED AND REVISED EDITION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF POOR AND WORKING-CLASS WHITES, URBAN ETHNIC GROUPS AND BLACK PANTHERS ORGANIZING SIDE BY SIDE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE 1960S AND '70S\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistorians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have often been painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. But authors James Tracy and Amy Sonnie disprove that narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power \u003c\/i\u003eis an important contribution to our understanding of a pivotal moment in U.S. history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Among the groups in the book: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e +\u003cb\u003e JOIN Community Union\u003c\/b\u003e brought together southern migrants, student radicals, and welfare recipients in Chicago to fight for housing, health, and welfare . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e + The \u003cb\u003eYoung Patriots Organization\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRising Up Angry\u003c\/b\u003e organized self-identified hillbillies, Chicago greasers, Vietnam vets, and young feminists into a legendary \"Rainbow Coalition\" with Black and Puerto Rican activists . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e +\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn Philadelphia, the \u003cb\u003eOctober 4th Organization\u003c\/b\u003e united residents of industrial Kensington against big business, war, and a repressive police force . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e+ \u003c\/b\u003eIn the Bronx, \u003cb\u003eWhite Lightning\u003c\/b\u003e occupied hospitals and built coalitions with doctors to fight for the rights of drug addicts and the poor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melville House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612199412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Amy Sonnie, James Tracy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40550803767477,"sku":"9781612199412","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ea667d81-c862-4bf7-99d1-c662f9e244c3.jpg?v=1626792478","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hillbilly-nationalists-urban-race-rebels-and-black-power-updated-and-revised-interracial-solidarity-in-1960s-70s-new-left-organizing-9781612199412","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}