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African American Fraternal Associations and the History of Civil Society in the United States
- A special issue of: Social Science History
- Volume: 28
- Issue: 3
- Special Issue Editor(s): Katherine A. Lynch
- Published: 2004
- Pages: 188
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1. African American Fraternal Associations in American History: An Introduction–Joe W.Trotter
2. Organization Despite Adversity: The Origins and Development of African
American Fraternal Associations–Theda Skocpol and Jennifer Lynn Oser
3. ‘‘What a Mighty Power We Can Be’’: Individual and Collective Identity in African American and White Fraternal Initiation Rituals–Bayliss J. Camp and Orit Kent
4. Duty to the Race: African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right to Organize–Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz
5. Contributors
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- Bayliss J. Camp
- Ariane Liazos
- Theda Skocpol
- Joe W. Trotter
- Marshall Ganz
- Orit Kent
- Jennifer Lyn Oser
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Description
The role of African American fraternal organizations in black civic engagement has been largely overlooked by scholars of African American history. While scholars have traditionally emphasized the role of the black church, social clubs, and civil rights organizations, this special issue of Social Science History explores the significance of fraternal organizations of men and women in the African American community from Reconstruction to the mid-twentieth century. It illustrates how these organizations helped foster solidarity, build identity, and encourage collective action.
The contributors construct a historical portrait of black fraternal orders during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They argue that African Americans were more likely than whites to form fraternal orders and to sustain them, using them to guard members against unemployment and other misfortunes. They examine the ritual life of fraternal organizations, paying particular attention to rites of initiation and to the values they reflected about collective identity, gender relations, equality, and collective action. Finally, they show how social networks that black fraternal organizations fostered led to successful legal battles for the right to assemble and to the later civil rights movement of the twentieth century.
Contributors. Bayliss J. Camp, Marshall Ganz, Orit Kent, Ariane Liazos, Jennifer Lynn Oser, Theda Skocpol, Joe W. Trotter