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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... early 1960s , and augmented white backlash . Malcolm X was among the first prominent Americans to condemn the war . SNCC and CORE declared their formal opposition to the war in early 1966. While King personally opposed the war , he did ...
... early 1950s , and Medgar Evers , Mississippi's most prominent activist during the 1950s and early 1960s , were either run out of the state or killed before the federal government ever passed civil rights legislation that affected the ...
... early 1970s , nearly all of its leaders were dead , in jail , or on the run , and the organization dissipated . Black power : This slogan , popularized in 1966 by Stokely Carmichael , the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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