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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... BOYCOTT On December 1 , 1955 , after a day's work at the Montgomery Fair department store , Rosa Parks , a middle ... boycott . Parks gave her permission , and over the course of a few days a core of activists mobilized the black ...
... boycott . But it fell to the Women's Political Council ( WPC ) , led by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson , an English professor at Alabama State College , to organize it . Over the course of a few days the Women's Political Council , which had ...
... boycott of the city's segregated buses . Initially planned as a one - day protest , the boycott , led by Martin Luther King , Jr. , and Ralph Abernathy , lasted for 381 days . Following the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Browder ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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