Before the Movement: The Hidden History of… by Dylan C. Penningroth · Audiobook preview

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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Authored by Dylan C. Penningroth
Narrated by Terrence Kidd

0:00 Intro
0:03 Introduction
30:15 A Note on Terminology
32:50 Part I Slavery
1:15:02 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement.



In Before the Movement, Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long–forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. They dealt with the laws of property, contract, inheritance, marriage and divorce, of associations (like churches and businesses and activist groups), and more. By exercising these "rights of everyday use," Penningroth demonstrates, they made Black rights seem unremarkable. And in innumerable subtle ways, they helped shape the law itself—the laws all of us live under today.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published on: March 26, 2024
ISBN: 9781696613439
Duration: 12 hr, 30 min
Genres: History / African American & Black