The Civil Rights Movement
Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
1. Auflage August 2000
344 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22043-5
John Wiley & Sons
The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best new scholarship on what is arguably the most important American social movement of the twentieth century. Designed for students, the volume contains twelve essays and supporting primary documents arranged chronologically and by topic with a detailed timeline and further reading lists. Emphasizing the wide chronological and geographic scope of the movement, this collection provides a perfect source for teaching the movement with a fresh perspective and new ideas.
Introduction.
List of Acronyms.
Chronology.
Part I: Sowing Seeds.
1. Foundations.
2. Labor and Civil Rights.
Part II: Defiance.
3. White Resistance.
4. Anti-Communism, Anti-Civil Rights.
Part III: Participants.
5. Liberals and Moderates.
6. Women in the Civil Rights Movement.
Part IV: Local-National Relationships.
7. The NAACP.
8. Grassroots.
Part V: Empowerment.
9. Black Power and Culture.
10. Political Power.
11. Environmental Injustice.
12. Affirmative Action.
Index.
List of Acronyms.
Chronology.
Part I: Sowing Seeds.
1. Foundations.
2. Labor and Civil Rights.
Part II: Defiance.
3. White Resistance.
4. Anti-Communism, Anti-Civil Rights.
Part III: Participants.
5. Liberals and Moderates.
6. Women in the Civil Rights Movement.
Part IV: Local-National Relationships.
7. The NAACP.
8. Grassroots.
Part V: Empowerment.
9. Black Power and Culture.
10. Political Power.
11. Environmental Injustice.
12. Affirmative Action.
Index.
"This volume offers a collection of informative essays and
supporting documents on the Civil Rights Movement that will
stimulate classroom discussions. It expands coverage of the
movement temporally and geographically, venturing away from the
standard 1954-1968 time frame and ranging beyond the familiar sites
of racial contention to less heralded but important ones, in the
North as well as the South." Steven Lawson, Rutgers
University
"Students and teachers alike will find much here to challenge
stereotypical assumptions and to prompt critical thinking and
analysis, as interpretative frameworks are constructed and defended
... Davis is able to make clear that the struggle for equal rights
for African American people was one that energized and mobilized
ordinary people from all walks of life to work for a common goal.
The extraordinary efforts of those ordinary people changed the
history of a nation forever." History: Reviews of New
Books
supporting documents on the Civil Rights Movement that will
stimulate classroom discussions. It expands coverage of the
movement temporally and geographically, venturing away from the
standard 1954-1968 time frame and ranging beyond the familiar sites
of racial contention to less heralded but important ones, in the
North as well as the South." Steven Lawson, Rutgers
University
"Students and teachers alike will find much here to challenge
stereotypical assumptions and to prompt critical thinking and
analysis, as interpretative frameworks are constructed and defended
... Davis is able to make clear that the struggle for equal rights
for African American people was one that energized and mobilized
ordinary people from all walks of life to work for a common goal.
The extraordinary efforts of those ordinary people changed the
history of a nation forever." History: Reviews of New
Books
Jack E. Davis teaches history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930 (2001).
