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Tells the story of two of the most influential black activists of the post-World War II American West

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Quest for Racial Equality in PhoenixPART I. Power Concedes Nothing without Demand1. The Black Professional Tradition2. Tuskegee, World War II, and the New Black Activism3. Mobilization, Agitation, and ProtestPART 2. Creative and Persistent4. Resistance and Interracial Dissent5. The Quickening6. Black and Chicano Leadership and the Struggle for Access and OpportunityPART 3. Moving Forward Counterclockwise7. The Struggle for Racial Equality in Phoenix, 1980-2000Conclusion: Racial Uplift in PhoenixAppendix A. African American Population in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area and Selected Suburbs, 2000Appendix B. Regional Racial Distribution in Selected Arizona Cities, 2000Appendix C. Selected American Western Cities with Black Populations Exceeding Fifty Thousand as of 2000Appendix D. Ragsdale Businesses and Financial EnterprisesAppendix E. Professional Organizations and Boards for which Lincoln Ragsdale ServedAppendix F. Professional Organizations and Boards for which Eleanor Ragsdale ServedAppendix G. Lincoln Ragsdale's Honors and DistinctionsNotesBibliographyIndex

About the Author

Matthew C. Whitaker is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. He is also an affiliate faculty member in African and African American studies and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU.

Reviews

"Matthew Whitaker has given us a deeply researched and compelling story of determined individuals doing extraordinary things." Carl Abbott, Montana: The Magazine of Western History "Race Work moves African American western history to a new level of sophistication." Quintard Taylor, author of In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the West, 1528-1990