The Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement

by Zhang,Ai-min

• ISBN13: 9780415933827
• ISBN10: 041593382X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred. The book discusses many factors that were fundamental to causing the rise of the civil rights movement. It begins with a brief introduction to the African-American's political, economic and social conditions since the American Civil War and goes on to consider the effects of the two Great Black Migrations in which millions of black Americans moved to the big industrial cities and began to learn how to make effective use of their voting rights to protect their own interests. Finally the book examines the effect of the Second World War and also the role of the Supreme Court.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
The Legacy of the Civil War	1	(16)
The African Americans' Rights were not Secured by the Reconstruction	1	(4)
The Establishment and Development of the Racial Segregation System	5	(5)
The Initial Responses of African Americans	10	(7)
Black Great Migrations	17	(22)
The Conditions Prior to the First Great Migration	18	(2)
The First Great Migration (1916-1929)	20	(8)
The Great Migration during the Second World War and Afterwards	28	(11)
Crisis, Opportunity and the Growth of African Americans Political Consciousness	39	(34)
The African Americans Turned to the Democratic Party	39	(11)
The Growth of African American Political Power	50	(15)
The African Americans Civil Activities	65	(8)
The Expansion of Social Basis	73	(28)
The Struggles between Liberals and Conservatives inside the Democrat Party	73	(6)
The Involvement of the Left in the Fight for Racial Justice	79	(5)
American Labor Organizations in the Civil Rights Movement	84	(6)
Changes in American Intellectual Circles	90	(11)
Eve of the African American Civil Rights Movement	101	(22)
African Americans Awakening	101	(7)
The March on Washington Movement	108	(15)
American Federal Supreme Court Decisions on Civil Rights Cases	123	(24)
Civil Rights Cases	123	(4)
Voting Rights Cases	127	(5)
Education Cases	132	(6)
The Brown Decision	138	(9)
Conclusion	147	(4)
Bibliography	151	(10)
Principal Cases Cited	161	(2)
Index	163