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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... affirmative action proved even more politically explosive than busing . Ironically , affirmative action had initally been conceived as a moderate means to rectify racial inequality , with both SNCC and the SCLC favoring much more ...
... action as wedge issues , severing large chunks of the Democratic Party and adding them to the Republican fold . On the local level as well , anti - busing sentiment , at times combined ... affirmative action have 98 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
Peter B. Levy. THE LEGACY All along , critics of affirmative action have contended that it was the product of a liberal cabal , forced on the nation by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats who shared a certain agenda . They add that it ...
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An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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