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Developing and Sustaining Political Citizenship for Poor and Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story
[Thesis]
Alexander, Kenneth Cooper
Antioch University
2019
260 p.
Ph.D.
Antioch University
2019
This study tells the deep, rich story of Evelyn T. Butts, a grassroots civil rights champion in Norfolk, Virginia, whose bridge leadership style can teach and inspire new generations about political, community, and social change. Butts used neighbor-to-neighbor skills to keep her community connected with the national civil rights movement, which had heavily relied on grassroots leaders-especially women-for much of its success in overthrowing America's Jim Crow system of segregation and suppression. She is best-known for her 1963 lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1966 decision to ban poll taxes for state and local elections, a democratizing event hailed as a progressive victory over the entrenchment of property and wealth as prerequisites for suffrage. Virginia required an annual
African American studies
American history
Cultural anthropology
Law
Political science
Public administration
Public policy
Sociology
Womens studies
Alexander, Kenneth Cooper
Antioch University
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[Thesis]
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