The Civil Rights Movement In America

Author : Charles W. Eagles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781496800978

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The Civil Rights Movement in America by Charles W. Eagles Pdf

With essays and commentaries by David Levering Lewis, Clayborne Carson, Steven F. Lawson, Nancy J. Weiss, David J. Garrow, John Dittmer, Neil R. McMillen, Charles V. Hamilton, Mark V. Tushnet, William H. Chafe, and J. Mills Thornton III The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed relations between the races that C. Vann Woodward has called it the “second revolution.” In a limited space, the eleven scholars range with a definitive view over a large subject. Their papers analyze and emphasize the Civil Rights Movement's important aspects: its origins and causes, its strategies and tactics for accomplishing black freedom, the creative tensions in its leadership, the politics of the movement in the key state of Mississippi, and the role of federal law and federal courts. In this collection a scholarly balance is achieved for each paper by a follow-up commentary from a significant authority. By deepening the understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, these essays underscore what has been gained through struggle, as well as acknowledging the goals that are yet to be attained.

Author : Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820325385

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The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford Pdf

The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over themovement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past twodecades. How the civil rights movement is currently being rememberedin American politics and culture - and why it matters - is the commontheme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection.Memories of the movement are being created and maintained - in waysand for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive - throughmemorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even streetnames.

Author : Michael Ezra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598840384

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Civil Rights Movement by Michael Ezra Pdf

This work documents the importance of the civil rights movement and its lasting impression on American society and culture. This revealing volume looks at the struggle for individual rights from the social historian's perspective, providing a fresh context for gauging the impact of the civil rights movement on everyday life across the full spectrum of American society. From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case to protests against the Vietnam War to the fight for black power, Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives looks at events that set the stage for guaranteeing America's promise to all Americans. In eight chapters, some of the country's leading social historians analyze the most recent investigations into the civil rights era's historical context and pivotal moments. Readers will gain a richer understanding of a movement that expanded well beyond its initial focus (the treatment of African Americans in the South) to include other Americans in regions across the nation.

Author : John Dittmer,George C. Wright,W. Marvin Dulaney
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0890965404

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Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement by John Dittmer,George C. Wright,W. Marvin Dulaney Pdf

As its name suggests, the civil rights movement is an ongoing process, and the scholars contributing to this volume offer new geographical and temporal perspectives on this crucial American experience. As Clayborne Carson notes in the introduction, the movement involved much more than civil rights reform--it transformed African-American political and social consciousness. In this timely volume John Dittmer provides a new assessment of the effects of grass-roots activists of the movement in Mississippi from 1965 to 1968, to show what happened after the famous Freedom Summer of 1964. George C. Wright shows how African Americans in Kentucky from 1900 to 1970 faced the same racial restrictions and violence as blacks in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. W. Marvin Dulaney traces the rise and fall of the movement in Dallas from the 1930s through the 1970s while the nation's attention was focused elsewhere.

Author : Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299321901

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Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement by Hasan Kwame Jeffries Pdf

Author : Kate Masur
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324005940

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2022 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws. They countered the states’ insistences that states were merely trying to maintain the domestic peace with the equal-rights promises they found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They were pastors, editors, lawyers, politicians, ship captains, and countless ordinary men and women, and they fought in the press, the courts, the state legislatures, and Congress, through petitioning, lobbying, party politics, and elections. Long stymied by hostile white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, the movement’s ideals became increasingly mainstream in the 1850s, particularly among supporters of the new Republican party. When Congress began rebuilding the nation after the Civil War, Republicans installed this vision of racial equality in the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. These were the landmark achievements of the first civil rights movement. Kate Masur’s magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Activists such as John Jones, a free Black tailor from North Carolina whose opposition to the Illinois “black laws” helped make the case for racial equality, demonstrate the indispensable role of African Americans in shaping the American ideal of equality before the law. Without enforcement, promises of legal equality were not enough. But the antebellum movement laid the foundation for a racial justice tradition that remains vital to this day.

Author : Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820328140

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The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford Pdf

The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture--and why it matters--is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection. Memories of the movement are being created and maintained--in ways and for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive--through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; corporations increasingly employ movement images to sell fast food, telephones, and more; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions; how our visual culture transmits the memory of the movement; how certain aspects of the movement have come to be ignored in its "official" narrative; and how other political struggles have appropriated the memory of the movement. Here is a book for anyone interested in how we collectively recall, claim, understand, and represent the past.

Author : Nick Treanor
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000055889704

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The Civil Rights Movement by Nick Treanor Pdf

Discusses the history of African Americans' struggle for equality, including the non-violent and violent protests of the 1960s, affirmative action, and the current state of race relations.

Author : Emily Mahoney
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499428476

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American Civil Rights Movement by Emily Mahoney Pdf

The American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in how African Americans were treated in the United States. This volume highlights the important events and figures that made this movement successful. The book introduces readers to important activists who fought for civil rights by raising their voices and refusing to accept unfair laws. Photographs and primary sources provide readers with a firsthand look at the history of the movement. Finally, readers will learn what can still be done to further equality for African Americans in the United States and how they can be a part of the movement.

Author : Michael Ezra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136274756

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The Economic Civil Rights Movement by Michael Ezra Pdf

Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights movement dealt successfully with injustices like disenfranchisement and segregated public accommodations, economic disparities between blacks and whites remain sharp, and the wealth gap between the two groups has widened in the twenty-first century. The Economic Civil Rights Movement is a collection of thirteen original essays that analyze the significance of economic power to the black freedom struggle by exploring how African Americans fought for increased economic autonomy in an attempt to improve the quality of their lives. It covers a wide range of campaigns ranging from the World War II era through the civil rights and black power movements and beyond. The unfinished business of the civil rights movement primarily is economic. This book turns backward toward history to examine the ways African Americans have engaged this continuing challenge.

Author : Raymond D'Angelo
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054291086

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The American Civil Rights Movement: Readings and Interpretations by Raymond D'Angelo Pdf

This new reader comprises an extensive collection of primary and secondary documents of the American Civil Rights movement. These documents are complemented by analytical and interpretive essays by the editor, setting these documents in their historical, social, and political context. The seeds for the modern Civil Rights Movement were planted nearly a century ago within the black Baptist Church, labor unions, the black press, and organizations like the NAACP and the SNYC. Each of the seven sections of this book present a carefully chosen selection of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, letters, speeches, reports, and legal documents, all chronicling the one aspect of the movement for black rights from the earliest days of post-Civil War segregation to the present. The works of eminent scholars, historians, legislators, and jurists alternate with the voices of movement leaders and followers, black politicians, black entertainers, and average citizens, all blending together to tell the story of struggle, failures, and successes on the road to equality for Black Americans.

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Childrens Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531187659

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The Civil Rights Movement in America by Elaine Landau Pdf

Relates the history of race relations in the United States, focusing on the civil rights movement that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in public schools.

Author : Aldon D. Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780029221303

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The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement by Aldon D. Morris Pdf

An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963.

Author : Rose Venable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1567669174

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The Civil Rights Movement by Rose Venable Pdf

Offers a brief history of the African American struggle for freedom, equality, and civil rights.

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Cary D. Wintz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806163482

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Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West by Bruce A. Glasrud,Cary D. Wintz Pdf

In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black women to work in Omaha’s meat packinghouses. In 1942, Thelma Paige used the courts to equalize the salaries of black and white schoolteachers across Texas. In 1950 Lucinda Todd of Topeka laid the groundwork for the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. These actions—including sit-ins long before the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960—occurred well beyond the borders of the American South and East, regions most known as the home of the civil rights movement. By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West convincingly integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans’ struggle for civil rights. From Iowa and Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, and from Texas to the Dakotas, black westerners initiated a wide array of civil rights activities in the early to late twentieth century. Connected to national struggles as much as they were tailored to local situations, these efforts predated or prefigured events in the East and South. In this collection, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz bring these moments into sharp focus, as the contributors note the ways in which the racial and ethnic diversity of the West shaped a specific kind of African American activism. Concentrating on the far West, the mountain states, the desert Southwest, the upper Midwest, and states both southern and western, the contributors examine black westerners’ responses to racism in its various manifestations, whether as school segregation in Dallas, job discrimination in Seattle, or housing bias in San Francisco. Together their essays establish in unprecedented detail how efforts to challenge discrimination impacted and changed the West and ultimately the United States.