Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is focused on the study of careers of black movement s militants whose political commitment presents the following features: a simultaneous involvement with both political parties and the black movement; a full-time dedication to militancy, and; the filling of state positions in left-wing governments. The main questions of the work are the grasp of the social resources required for filling governmental posts as well as the understanding of the historical, social, and cultural policies that gave rise to that pattern of political activism in the Brazilian State of Sergipe. The theoretical and methodological orientation of the research combined a set of analytical schemes borrowed from the sociology of social movements and the sociology of activism, using notions such as structure of political opportunities, processes of political involvement and social networks. The results show that there are some favorable conditions for the emergence of the pattern of political involvement and militancy at stake: the political detente and the end of the military rule in Brazil, the pressure of both international organizations and the Brazilian black movement over the State, and the rise of political allies within the federal government. As to the features of those militants who held state positions, the works highlights the centrality of a militant capital gathered over within the networks of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and the Partido Comunista do Brasil (PcdoB), and also within the black movement. / Esta dissertação tem por objeto o estudo de carreiras de militantes do movimento negro cujo engajamento caracteriza-se pela militância simultânea em partidos políticos, pela dedicação exclusiva à militância e pela ocupação de cargos em administrações de esquerda. A questão central do trabalho consistiu em apreender o conjunto de recursos para a ocupação daqueles cargos, bem como as condições históricas, sociais, culturais e políticas que permitiram o surgimento de tal modalidade de militância política no estado de Sergipe. A pesquisa teve como orientação teórico-metodológica um conjunto de esquemas analíticos que combinam pressupostos da sociologia dos movimentos sociais e sociologia da militância, tais como estrutura de oportunidades políticas, processos de engajamento individual e redes sociais. Os resultados apontam algumas condições favoráveis para o surgimento do padrão de engajamento analisado, a saber, a abertura política no final do regime militar, a pressão de organizações internacionais e do movimento negro no Brasil sobre o Estado e a ascensão de aliados políticos ao governo federal. Em relação aos recursos mobilizados para a ocupação dos cargos, observa-se a centralidade de um capital militante acumulado nas redes do Partido dos Trabalhadores e do Partido Comunista do Brasil e dentro do próprio movimento negro. .

This thesis compares the history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to that of its Seattle chapter. The study traces the entire history of CORE from 1942-1968 as well as the history of Seattle CORE from 1961-1968. The goal of this examination is to identify why Seattle CORE successfully fended off the movement for black militancy and consequently why national CORE failed to do so. Juxtaposing the two radically different histories shows an integrated organization, bureaucratic leadership, a plan of action based on nonviolent actions, and a strong attachment to the black community were the central reasons for the success of Seattle CORE, and conversely, these areas were why national CORE struggled. Moreover, this study shows the events and failures over the first two decades created a susceptible environment for the organization to abandon CORE's nonviolent ideology and the subsequent disintegration of the Congress of Racial Equality as the walls of Jim Crow broke down