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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... NAACP , founded in 1909. By the end of World War II , the NAACP had about a half million dues - paying members with chapters all across the nation , a growing treasury , a small army of lawyers trained in the intricacies of civil rights ...
... NAACP's lawyers did not simply tally up the differences in expenditures . Instead , the NAACP contended that education had to be measured by more than bricks and mortar , that the values learned and the psychological effects of the ...
... NAACP in New York City , and Wilkins readily accepted . In 1934 , NAACP co - founder W.E.B. Du Bois resigned as editor of its magazine , The Crisis . Wilkins assumed the post , and edited the magazine for fifteen years . In 1950 , when ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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