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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... campaigns emerges. Garrow's inclusion of Irwin Klibaner's dissertation on the Southern Education Conference Fund (SCEF) is especially welcome because it underscores the radical roots of the civil rights movement and the difficulties in ...
... campaign. Birmingham produced the fearless Fred Shuttlesworth, whose Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights encountered bombs, bullets, and bricks years before the massive street demonstrations of 1963 led by the SCLC. The local ...
... campaigns such as those in Birmingham, the SCLC sought mainly to convince national lawmakers to enact legislation eradicating de jure racial discrimination and characteristically left the scene upon accomplishing this mission. Black ...
... campaign of 1964, though invited by SNCC, “brought to the surface a great deal of the pathology of black-white relations.”48 While Stoper charts the organizational strains within SNCC, many of the group's troubles must also be ...
... campaign for president of Henry Wallace in 1948 marked the turning point for the possibility of racial democracy in the region. Wallace's defeat and the Red-baiting that accompanied it shattered the Popular Front coalition that had been ...
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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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Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle Steven F. Lawson Xem trước bị giới hạn - 2014 |