Developing and Sustaining Political Citizenship for Poor and Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story
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Alexander, Kenneth Cooper
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Antioch University
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2019
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260 p.
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Ph.D.
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Antioch University
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2019
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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