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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... desegregation . Indeed , those with political aspirations in the South often stood in the forefront of the battle to maintain the southern way of life , championing the strategy of massive resistance to desegregation as the most ...
... desegregation of public schools . Nonetheless , Daisy Bates , local leader of the NAACP , along with the national office of the NAACP , insisted that local blacks had already compromised enough . Bates and the NAACP's lawyers obtained a ...
... desegregation of public education . The opinion in the Brown case , written by Warren ( his first ) , was short , simple , and to the point . " Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race , even though the ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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