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The Civil Rights Movement
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Peter B. Levy
Book Code: GR9854
ISBN: 0-313-29854-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29854-7
264 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/1998
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...a superb historical account of the civil rights movement.
    —SAGE Race Realations Abstracts     February 2001
  • ...clear, well-written, and historically balanced....As a historical overview and summary of the civil rights movement, this work is excellent.
    —ARBA
Description: Designed for secondary school and college student research, The Civil Rights Movement is a one-stop guide that includes clear analysis and ready reference components. Combining narrative description, analytical essays, chronology, biographical profiles, and the text of key primary documents, this work fills a gap in the existing literature. Drawing on the most recent research, Levy, author of the acclaimed Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, provides an outstanding introduction to the Civil Rights movement, its development, issues, and leaders. Six essays analyze the crucial aspects of the movement, including a concluding essay that assesses its legacy. Ready reference features include: a chronology of events; lengthy biographical profiles of 20 key civil rights activists; the text of 15 seminal documents valuable for student research; a glossary of selected terms; and an annotated bibliography of recommended further reading and audiovisual materials. The essays are designed to be clear and engaging; they capture the conflict and drama of the Civil Rights movement as they present an analysis of its main features. Following a narrative overview of the movement, five analytical essays address these topics: the origins of the movement; the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi; the fight for legal equality, with a discussion aimed at fostering a better understanding of the current debate over affirmative action; the role played by women in the movement; and an analysis of the legacy of the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s. These essays are followed by biographical profiles of 20 civil rights activists, from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X to Ella Jo Baker and Bayard Rustin. The guide includes 15 primary documents, ranging from addresses by Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, to speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokley Carmichael, Malcolm X, and George Wallace. A selection of photos complements the text. This one-stop reference source offers not only a starting point for students research but analysis that raises issues still being debated today.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Randall M. Miller
  • Chronology of Events
  • The Civil Rights Movement Explained
  • The Modern Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
  • Freedom's Coming and It Won't Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Mississippi: Is This America?
  • With All Deliberate Speed: The Fight for Legal Equality
  • Sisterhood Is Powerful: Women and the Civil Rights Movement
  • A Second Redemption?
  • Biographies: The Personalities Behind the Movement
  • Primary Documents of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Glossary of Selected Terms
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-22553
LCC Class: E185
Dewey Class: 323
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