The civil rights movement / Paul A. Winters, book editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Turning points (Greenhaven Press)Publication details: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, Description: 287 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0737702176
  • 9780737702170
  • 0737702168
  • 9780737702163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Civil rights movement.DDC classification:
  • 323.1/196073 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .C612 2000
Contents:
Part I. The Fight for Rights Begins -- Litigation and Political Lobbying / Denton L. Watson -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott / Walt Harrington -- Nonviolence and Racial Justice / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X and Black Nationalism / James H. Cone -- Southern States Sidestep Desegregation Orders / Forrest R. White -- Massive Resistance by Southern States / Calvin Trillin -- The Federal Government's Litigation Strategy / John Doar -- Part II. Peaceful Demonstrations and Radical Tactics -- The Student Sit-In Campaign / Ronald Walters -- Civil Disobedience in Birmingham / David B. Oppenheimer -- The March on Washington / Murray Kempton -- Blacks Question the Multiracial Movement / Nicolaus Mills -- Churches Join the Movement / James Findlay -- Freedom Summer / Mike Miller -- The Ineffectiveness of Nonviolence / Jan Howard -- Part III. From Protest to Politics -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Alan Greenblatt -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 / David J. Garrow -- Johnson and the White Backlash / William E. Leuchtenburg -- The End of the Civil Rights Coalition / Gerald Early -- The Chicago Freedom Movement / James R. Ralph, Jr. -- The Anti-War Movement / Herbert Shapiro -- Part IV. The Fight for Rights Continues -- Integration or Anti-Discrimination? / Denton L. Watson -- Equal Economic Opportunity / Herb Boyd -- Black Voting in Mississippi / Bell Gale Chevigny.
Summary: Contains over twenty essays by a variety of authors in which they analyze the historical progression, underlying causes, and competing strategies of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.

Part I. The Fight for Rights Begins -- Litigation and Political Lobbying / Denton L. Watson -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott / Walt Harrington -- Nonviolence and Racial Justice / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X and Black Nationalism / James H. Cone -- Southern States Sidestep Desegregation Orders / Forrest R. White -- Massive Resistance by Southern States / Calvin Trillin -- The Federal Government's Litigation Strategy / John Doar -- Part II. Peaceful Demonstrations and Radical Tactics -- The Student Sit-In Campaign / Ronald Walters -- Civil Disobedience in Birmingham / David B. Oppenheimer -- The March on Washington / Murray Kempton -- Blacks Question the Multiracial Movement / Nicolaus Mills -- Churches Join the Movement / James Findlay -- Freedom Summer / Mike Miller -- The Ineffectiveness of Nonviolence / Jan Howard -- Part III. From Protest to Politics -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Alan Greenblatt -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 / David J. Garrow -- Johnson and the White Backlash / William E. Leuchtenburg -- The End of the Civil Rights Coalition / Gerald Early -- The Chicago Freedom Movement / James R. Ralph, Jr. -- The Anti-War Movement / Herbert Shapiro -- Part IV. The Fight for Rights Continues -- Integration or Anti-Discrimination? / Denton L. Watson -- Equal Economic Opportunity / Herb Boyd -- Black Voting in Mississippi / Bell Gale Chevigny.

Contains over twenty essays by a variety of authors in which they analyze the historical progression, underlying causes, and competing strategies of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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