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Randolph Hollingsworth

women civil rights workers - 11 oral history interviews - Documenting the American South - 0 views

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primary source oral history women activism cicl rights Nelle Morton Septima Poinsette Clark Edith Mitchell Dabs Elizabeth Jacoway Burns Grace Towns Hamilton Nancy Kester Neale Elizabeth Siceloff Virginia Foster Durr Modjeska Simkins

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 15 Nov 10
     
    UNC's wonderful open educational resource offers up transcripts and .mp3 files of oral history interviews by such great historians as Jacquelyn Hall Dowd and Sue Thrasher.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Francesca Polletta, FREEDOM IS AN ENDLESS MEETING: Democracy in American Social Movemen... - 0 views

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Ella Baker Miles Horton James Lawson participatory democracy popular education Highlander Center cicl rights

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    Sociological study of the history and impact of the ideas of participatory democracy - emphasizing the strategic components of this leadership approach: builds trust among members, leads to better and more innovative decisions, develops leaders among those whose perspectives have been systematically devalued, effects change without reproducing the very socio-political structures that it fights. The strategies for participatory decision-making comes out of the 1930s legacy of the great American educator, John Dewey - both Ella Baker and Miles Horton were trained at Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York. Established leaders are often uncomfortable with real, democratic decisionmaking since it fundamentally challenges implicit hierarchies.
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