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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... Summer came to a climax in Atlantic City , New Jersey , at the Democratic Party's national convention , when the MFDP sought recognition as the bona fide delegation from the state of Mississippi . Even though the MFDP's delegates ...
... Summer . According to his plans , COFO would recruit about one thousand students , many of them white , from elite colleges and universities to join the movement in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 . These volunteers would head up ...
... Summer . The following month COFO offi- cially endorsed the plan . As noted above , Freedom Summer had two main foci , Freedom Schools and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) . The schools were directed by Staughton Lynd ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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