The civil rights movement / Paul A. Winters, book editor. - San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, - 287 pages : map ; 23 cm. - Turning points . - Turning points (Greenhaven Press) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.

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

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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