The Civil Rights MovementGreenwood Press, 1998 - 226 Seiten
The essays are designed to be clear and engaging; they capture the conflict and drama of the Civil Rights movement as they present an analysis of its main features. Following a narrative overview of the movement, five analytical essays address these topics: the origins of the movement; the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi; the fight for legal equality, with a discussion aimed at fostering a better understanding of the current debate over affirmative action; the role played by women in the movement; and an analysis of the legacy of the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s. These essays are followed by biographical profiles of 20 civil rights activists, from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X to Ella Jo Baker and Bayard Rustin. The guide includes 15 primary documents, ranging from addresses by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, to speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokley Carmichael, Malcolm X, and George Wallace. A selection of photos complements the text. This one-stop reference source offers not only a starting point for students research but analysis that raises issues still being debated today. |
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... Kennedy , convinced the Democratic presidential candidate and his brother , Robert , to make several gestures in support of the jailed civil rights leader . Against the advice of his top political aides , who feared alienating southern ...
... Kennedy administration into action . SNCC and Diane Nash , a veteran of the sit - in movement in Nashville , Tennessee , responded by putting out a call for volunteers to rush to Birmingham to continue the rides , explaining that the ...
... Kennedy that his strategy of seeking solutions to America's racial problems with minimal federal intervention would no longer work . Everywhere the Kennedy administration looked it saw , in the president's words , the " fires of ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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