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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... March - June June 11 June 11 June 11 August 28 September 15 SCLC organizes protests in Birmingham , Alabama Protests sweep across the South , from St. Augustine , Florida , to ... March 9 March 15 March 21-25 August 6 XX CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS.
... march was King's moving " I Have a Dream " speech . Unlike his “ Letter from a Birmingham Jail , " King's oration at the March on Washington exuded optimism and unity . Rather than criticizing moderates , he reached out to them with his ...
... march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama . Governor George Wallace utterly opposed this idea and proclaimed that he would take whatever measures were neces- sary to halt it . The SCLC proceeded nonetheless . On Sunday , March 7 , 1965 ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
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