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African Americans -- Societies, etc.
► Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations
(2 North Reference: E 185.5.O74 2001)
Organized alphabetically, this is a comprehensive reference work illustrating the rich history of black organizations and their leaders.
► Groups and Organizations (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/groups-organizations-african-american-history/)-- from an online reference center in African American history BlackPast.org
(www.blackpast.org) Updated by entry date with the most recent one on the top, it is not a chronological nor alphabetical list of groups/organizations. Each is given a short description with link to more details.
► A Nation within a Nation: Organizing African-American Communities Before the Civil War (eBook)
A comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War
► Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (eBook)
Exams the leadership, membership, structure, goals, ideology, activities, accountability, and impact of contemporary black political organizations and their leaders.
► What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (eBook)
This book tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations.
