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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... ruled in Gaines's favor , setting a precedent for further attacks on segregation in education and other arenas of life . In 1940 Houston resigned from the NAACP , leaving Thurgood Marshall in charge of the recently created NAACP Legal ...
... ruled that separate public beaches and bathhouses were unconstitutional . Subsequent court decisions outlawed the segregation of public golf courses , buses , libraries , and parks . In Gayle v . Browder ( 1956 ) , a case that grew out ...
... ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional . The Brown decision paved the way for the successful challenge of many other Jim Crow laws and undergirded the civil rights movement , which henceforth argued that the law ...
Inhalt
An Overview | 3 |
The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights | 127 |
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement | 149 |
Urheberrecht | |
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