| Description |
xii, 324 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in modern history |
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Studies in modern history (Longman (Firm))
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| Contents |
1. Change and Continuity in the Jim Crow South. Reconstruction and the post-Civil War South. The era of segregation. Instruments of change -- 2. A Pre-history of the Civil Rights Movement. Community building and political struggle before 1933. The New Deal era. The NAACP campaign for racial justice -- 3. A Movement Stirs 1940-60. The Second World War. The Cold War, Brown, and massive resistance. The Montgomery bus boycott. Treading water -- 4. The Destruction of Jim Crow 1960-65. The student sit-ins of 1960. Kennedy and King at centre stage. St Augustine and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The movement triumphant: Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- 5. Grass-roots Organising and the Mississippi Freedom Summer. Participatory democracy and the organising tradition. Mobilising Mississippi blacks 1961-63. Freedom Summer -- 6. The Movement in Decline 1965-68. Fissiparous tendencies. Strain at the centre: the SCLC's Chicago campaign. Black Power |
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The last months of Martin Luther King -- 7. The Roots of Success. Leadership and organisation. Unity and nonviolence. Allies -- 8. The Struggle Continues. The Nixon years. Litigation and lobbying in the 1970s and 1980s. The primacy of politics. Conclusion: unfinished business |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
97008579 |
| ISBN |
0582215315 |
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0582215323 (paperback) |
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