Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom StruggleUniversity Press of Kentucky, 17 thg 3, 2021 - 400 trang Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement that is essential reading for anyone concerned about the past, present, and future of race relations in America. Lawson examines the movement from a variety of perspectives—local and national, political and social—to offer penetrating insights into the civil rights movement and its influence on contemporary society. Civil Rights Crossroads also illuminates the role of a broad array of civil rights activists, familiar and unfamiliar. Lawson describes the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson to shape the direction of the struggle, as well as the extraordinary contributions of ordinary people like Fannie Lou Hamer, Harry T. Moore, Ruth Perry, Theodore Gibson, and many other unsung heroes of the most important social movement of the twentieth century. Lawson also examines the decades-long battle to achieve and expand the right of African Americans to vote and to implement the ballot as the cornerstone of attempts at political liberation. |
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... March on Washington. Most Americans choose to celebrate and remember King's call for nonviolent, interracial cooperation in the face of festering racial injustices. What has been lost in this popular adulation is the recognition that ...
... march on Washington, D.C., tragedy presented Lyndon Johnson with the opportunity and power to prove how deep his concern for racial equality had grown. The murder of President Kennedy gave Johnson a chance to fulfill what to he had come ...
... March 7, 1965. Both authors conclude the bloody attack ensured that the eventual bill “would be enacted into law, and with only minimal delay and no weakening amendments.”31 to In a most interesting departure for others to follow,
... March 1968, he watched his supporters choke off a filibuster after three unsuccessful cloture attempts. The bill was about to clear its final congressional hurdle in the House when large-scale rioting broke out following the ...
... march on Washington by angrily lumping together the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize with such purveyors of violence as Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown.57 An inquiry into the administration's response to the subsequent march may ...
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From Boycotts to Ballots | |
Preserving the Second Reconstruction | |
The Unmaking of the Second Reconstruction | |
Floridas Little Scottsboro | |
Investigations and Massive Resistance | |
From Sitin to Race Riot | |
Rock n Roll the Payola Scandal and the Political Culture of Civil | |
Women Civil Rights and Black Liberation | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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