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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... move now , " King asserted . " Yes we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us .... The burning of our churches will not deter us . . . . Like an idea whose time has come , not even the marching of armies can halt us . " While ...
... move- ment in Harmony . More famous yet was Fannie Lou Hamer , a sharecropper from Ruleville . By tapping these preexisting networks , Moses and SNCC built a move- ment in McComb and its environs more quickly than many thought possible ...
... move- ment , who in 1941 had prodded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to desegregate the defense industries by threatening to stage a similar protest . Even though the weather was hot and muggy , the mood at the 1963 demonstration was ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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