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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 50
... Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The passage of these racial reforms demonstrated the power of the civil rights movement . To- gether they represented a watershed in the fight for legal equality . The Civil Rights Act ...
... Rights Act of 1964 , breaking the back of southern opposition to the bill . Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court in 1967 sym- bolized the distance that blacks had traveled in the middle years of the twentieth century ...
... Rights Act of 1964 , Representative Howard K. Smith of Virginia offered an amendment making sexual as well as racial discrimination illegal . Smith proposed this amendment not because he was a closet feminist but in the belief that it ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
3 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.