Freedom Bound

by Weisbrot, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780452265530
• ISBN10: 0452265533
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-30
• Publisher: E P Dutton

Summary

In this singe volume, Robert Weisbrot gives a vivid, admirably balanced history of the civil rights movement--from its rise with the Brown decision and the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s, through the dramatic sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, and great legislative gains in the 1960s, to its decline in the urban riots, disputes over leadership, and affirmative action in the late 1960s and 1970s. Black-and-white photos.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Origins of the Movement	1	(18)
American Dilemma
An Awakening Movement
The Sit-ins	19	(26)
Catching the Mood
A Movement on Trial: The Rise of White Extremism
Coming Together: Students and the Black Community
Impact of the Protests
Mass Protest in the Kennedy Years	45	(41)
The Presidential Campaign of 1960
Kennedy in Office: The Politics of Expectation
Freedom Rides
The Albany Movement
James Meredith and ``Ole Miss''
Birmingham
Toward a ``Second Reconstruction''
The March on Washington
The Great Society	86	(41)
``Let Us Continue''
Freedom Summer
The Movement and the Party
The Campaign of 1964
The Voting Rights Campaign	127	(27)
Southern Resistance
The Movement in Selma
``Bloody Sunday''
Marching to Montgomery
The Voting Rights Bill
The Ghettos Erupt	154	(32)
Black Life in the North
Watts
The Limits of Federal Programs
The Limits of Private Programs
The Nation of Islam
King in Chicago
Reformers at the Crossroads	186	(36)
The Southern Movement in Crisis
The Broadening Protest: Civil Rights Leaders and Vietnam
Closing Ranks: Black Politics in Lowndes County
Marching toward Black Power
Black Power, White Blacklash
The Radical Movement	222	(40)
Black Cultural Nationalism
The Politics of Black Nationalism
Challenging the ``Great Society''
In Search of New Coalitions
``Law and Order''	262	(26)
A Divided Society
Year of Reaction
The Silenced Minority
Epilogue: The Shifting Politics of Race	288	(31)
Education and the Courts
Presidential Leadership from Ford to Reagan
The Receding Civil Rights Vision
A Record of Change
Notes	319	(17)
Further Reading	336	(3)
Index	339