The civil rights movement
Six essays capture the drama and conflict of the struggle, covering, among other topics, the origins of the movement, the fight for legal equality, the role of women, and the lasting effects of the protests of the 1950s and 1960s. Ready-reference features include biographical profiles of 20 activists, from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X to Ella Jo Baker and Bayard Rustin, a chronology, bibliography, and photographs. This work also contains 15 primary documents, including presidential addresses and speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and George Wallace
Print Book, English, 1998
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Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1998
collective biographies
xxiv, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780313298547, 0313298548
37187413
Series Foreword / Randall M. Miller
The modern civil rights movement: an overview
Freedom's coming and it won't be long: the origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Mississippi: "is this America?" a case study of the movement
With all deliberate speed: the fight for legal equality
Sisterhood is powerful: women and the civil rights movement
A second redemption?
Biographies: The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement