The Civil Rights Movement: Revised Edition

by Dierenfield,Bruce J.

• ISBN13: 9781405874359
• ISBN10: 140587435X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A vivid, lively, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights movement. Provides a detailed discussion of the racism that accompanied slavery in America and thereafter consigned African-Americans to an inferior position Addresses the actions of racists, liberals, and reformers and radicals Discusses local reformers who laboured for years to get the movement off the ground Provides documents covering the most important aspects of the modern civil rights movement Contains Maps and Photographs, as well as a Glossary, Chronology, a Who's Who list of key figures, and a Guide to Further Reading The chronology and glossary sections are the most detailed of their kind

Author Biography

Bruce J. Dierenfield is Professor of History at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Publisher's Acknowledgement	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xv
Who's Who	p. xxii
Glossary	p. xxviii
Maps	p. xxxv
The Problem	p. 1
The Mississippi Plan	p. 7
Jim Crow South	p. 9
The New Negro	p. 13
Origins of the Movement	p. 15
The Brown Decision	p. 22
Little Rock Crisis	p. 32
Freedom Bound	p. 41
Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 43
Sit-Ins	p. 54
Freedom Ride	p. 63
Battle of Ole Miss	p. 71
Bombingham	p. 78
March on Washington	p. 87
The Movement Fractures	p. 97
Freedom Summer	p. 99
Bloody Sunday	p. 112
The Dream Deferred	p. 125
Black Power	p. 127
Assessment	p. 136
Documents	p. 139
14th Amendment, 1868	p. 140
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483, 17 May 1954	p. 140
Declaration of Constitutional Principles: the Southern Manifesto, 12 March 1956	p. 141
Herblock cartoon on President Dwight Eisenhower, 1956	p. 142
James Farmer, 'Separation or Integration? A debate at Cornell University,' 7 March 1962	p. 143
'We Shall Overcome'	p. 143
Robert Kennedy's telephone calls during the Freedom Ride, 22 May 1961	p. 144
Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' 16 April 1963	p. 144
John F. Kennedy's radio and television report to the American people on civil rights, 11 June 1963	p. 146
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, 28 August 1963	p. 147
Malcolm X's speech in Cleveland, Ohio, April 1964	p. 148
Mississippi voter registration form, early 1960s	p. 149
Student Voice editorial cartoon on the FBI, 25 November 1964	p. 151
SNCC handbill on the usefulness of politics in Mississippi, 1964	p. 152
White volunteers in Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964	p. 152
SNCC position paper, 5 August 1966	p. 153
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, March 1968	p. 154
Black Panthers' founding document, October 1966	p. 155
Graph of poverty status by race, 1939-1994	p. 156
Further Reading	p. 157
Index	p. 171
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