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About this book
A new civil rights reader that integrates the primary source approach with the latest historiographical trends
Designed for use in a wide range of curricula, The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader presents an in-depth exploration of the multiple facets and layers of the movement, providing a wide range of primary sources, commentary, and perspectives. Focusing on documents, this volume offers students concise yet comprehensive analysis of the civil rights movement by covering both well-known and relatively unfamiliar texts. Through these, students will develop a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the origins of the movement, its pivotal years during the 1950s and 1960s, and its legacy that extends to the present day.
Part of the Uncovering the Past series on American history, this documentary reader enables students to critically engage with primary sources that highlight the important themes, issues, and figures of the movement. The text offers a unique dual approach to the subject, addressing the opinions and actions of the federal government and national civil rights organizations, as well as the views and struggles of civil rights activists at the local level. An engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the subject, this volume:
- Explores the civil rights movement and the African American experience within their wider political, economic, legal, social, and cultural contexts
- Renews and expands the primary source approach to the civil rights movement
- Incorporates the latest historiographical trends including the "long" civil rights movement and intersectional issues
- Offers authoritative commentary which places the material in appropriate context
- Presents clear, accessible writing and a coherent chronological framework
Written by one of the leading experts in the field, The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader is an ideal resource for courses on the subject, as well as classes on race and ethnicity, the 1960s, African American history, the Black Power and economic justice movements, and many other related areas of study.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- Chapter 2: Brown v. Board of Education and Massive Resistance, 1954–6
- Chapter 3: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955–7
- Chapter 4: The Little Rock Crisis and Desegregation in Education, 1957–62
- Chapter 5: The Sit‐Ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960
- Chapter 6: The Freedom Rides and the Congress of Racial Equality, 1961
- Chapter 7: Albany, Birmingham, and the March on Washington, 1961–3
- Chapter 8: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
- Chapter 9: The Selma Campaign and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Chapter 10: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South, 1965–75
- Chapter 11: Black Power, 1966
- Chapter 12: Vietnam, Economic Justice, and the Poor People’s Campaign, 1967–8
- Chapter 13: Affirmative Action, 1960s–1980s
- Chapter 14: Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
- Index
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