Reviews for Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

The average rating for Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-14 00:00:00 Stephanie Bryant Robnett complicates the distinction between organizing and leadership in the Civil Rights Movement by exploring a "mobilizing" tradition shaped primarily by African American women who served as "bridge leaders" between community and the political movement. There's a bit more sociological language than I would have liked--probably because Robnett needed to impress her tenure committee--but the stories of Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and Diane Nash among others make this a valuable read.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-26 00:00:00 Solomon Simmons (I will update this more shortly.) "...What might have been more empowering would have been a call not only for a Million Man March but also a simultaneous Million Woman March, followed by a procession through the streets to a central location where two million African-American men and women joined hands and sang our Black national anthem, "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing." Together and in harmony, our voices should be heard singing James Weldon Johnson's first two stanzas..."