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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... race a national problem , or more precisely made northerners more aware of race as their problem . Initially , northerners focused on the southern dimension of racism , but by the latter half of the 1960s they could no longer ignore the ...
... Race Relations and the Detroit Race Riot of 1967. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1989. Case study of the worst race riot in the history of the United States . Foner , Philip S. , ed . The Black Panthers Speak . Philadelphia ...
... Race and Poverty in the U.S .: The Kerner Report Twenty Years Later . New York : Pantheon , 1988. Exami- nation of race relations in the United States twenty years after the climax of the civil rights years . Hill , Herbert , and James ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
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