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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... jail . A little short of a week later , city authorities and sit - in leaders signed a truce , ending the protests . While most of the demonstrators were freed , Dr. King was not because a local judge argued that his participation in ...
... jail following another arrest in August 1962. King's willing- ness to be bailed out of jail impressed some militant activists more than his willingness to march , as they viewed his bailing out as selling out . Ironically , it was ...
Peter B. Levy. jail cell , Moses penned " Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell , " one of the most profound documents of the decade . " This is Mississippi , the middle of the iceberg , " Moses wrote . " This is a tremor in the middle of ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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