Françoise N. Hamlin & Charles W. McKinney 
From Rights to Lives [EPUB ebook] 
The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #Black Lives Matter Movement possess some similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark them both. Crucially, these moments also engender aggressive, repressive, multilevel responses to these assertions of Black humanity.




From Rights to Lives critically engages the dynamic relationship between these two moments of liberatory possibility on the Black Freedom Struggle timeline. The book’s contributors explore what we can learn when we place these moments of struggle in dialogue with each other. They grapple with how our understanding of the postwar moment shapes our analysis of #BLM and wherein lie the discontinuities, in order to glean lessons for future moments of insurgency.

قائمة المحتويات

Introduction: From Rights to Lives: History Matters

Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. Mc Kinney Jr.



1. “Sincerely, Your Grandparents’ Hands”: Elucidating Similarities between the Trayvon Martin Generation of #Black Lives Matter and the Emmett Till Generation of the Civil Rights Movement

Charity Clay



2. Continuity and Change: The Spirituality of Liberation in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Christophe D. Ringer



3. Good Cops?

Peter Pihos



4. “We May Have to Defend Ourselves”: Black Women and Campaigns against Police Sexual Violence during the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Eras

Althea Legal-Miller



5. Revolts of the Black Athletes: Race, Sport, and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

Scott N. Brooks and Aram Goudsouzian



6. The Search for Truth and Justice: A Diasporic Black Freedom Struggle

Kishauna Soljour



7. The Ambivalence of Activist Photography: July 10, 2016

David V. Mason



8. When the Cultural Revolution Comes: Anthem Making in the Era of BLM

Mickell Carter​



Postscript: “Miraculous, Magnificent, and Messy”: Rights, Lives, and the Movement in Real Time

Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. Mc Kinney Jr.



Contributor Bios

عن المؤلف

Françoise N. Hamlin is the Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Africana Studies & History at Brown University. She is the author of the award-winning
Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II, coeditor of the anthology
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on Citizenship and War, and editor and annotator of the republication of
The Struggle of Struggles by activist Vera Pigee.


Charles W. Mc Kinney Jr. is chair of Africana studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of
Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina, and coeditor of
An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee.