Developing and Sustaining Political Citizenship for Poor and Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butt...

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" Developing and Sustaining Political Citizenship for Poor and Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story "
Alexander, Kenneth Cooper

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1052518
Doc. No	:	TL51635
Main Entry	:	Alexander, Kenneth Cooper
Title & Author	:	Developing and Sustaining Political Citizenship for Poor and Marginalized People: The Evelyn T. Butts Story\ Alexander, Kenneth Cooper
College	:	Antioch University
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	260 p.
Abstract	:	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
Descriptor	:	African American studies
	:	American history
	:	Cultural anthropology
	:	Law
	:	Political science
	:	Public administration
	:	Public policy
	:	Sociology
	:	Womens studies
Added Entry	:	Antioch University