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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... Mississippi during the 1950s or early 1960s . To make matters worse , the cotton economy of the Mississippi Delta , the mainstay of African American life for over a century , was in the ... Mississippi : The Closed Society MISSISSIPPI 61.
... Mississippi . Put simply , black power both became and did not become the goal of those who remained in Mississippi . Building on SNCC's efforts in the state , the Freedom Schools , and the MFDP , the civil rights movement kept plowing ...
... Mississippi politics and the political calling card of such famous race - baiters as Theodore Bilbo , John Rankin ... Mississippi were much more likely to attend an integrated school than blacks in the Northeast , the Midwest , or the ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
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