Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom StruggleUniversity Press of Kentucky, 17 thg 10, 2014 - 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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... white clergy and their congregations. The importance of this subject can be ... white churches accommodated segregation and what some of them finally did to ... House as the central agency for orchestrating the movement or, in the cases ...
... White House in 1960. As vice-president, Johnson continued to mature as a proponent of equal rights, but this process has received scant attention. His thousand days in the number two spot were not happy times, because, as T. Harry ...
... White House aide, held a lengthy telephone conversation which Johnson recorded on a dictaphone machine. The tape and transcript of the talk offer fascinating insights into Johnson's views of racial politics. Almost uninterrupted for ...
... House of Representatives. The Kennedy administration had conducted intensive ... white backlash, but its achievement has attracted little interest from ... White House has not constituted much of a loss. They have implied that Johnson's ...
... White House rounded up support in its behalf. Lee White, who advised both Kennedy and Johnson on racial affairs, reported that there “have been countless meetings, discussions, phone calls to Congressional leaders, minority group ...
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PART THREE CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POLITICS | 95 |
PART FOUR FROM THE BOTTOM UP | 75 |
PART FIVE NEW PATHS OF EXPLORATION | 235 |
Notes | 284 |
Selected Bibliography | 354 |
Permissions | 364 |
Index | 366 |
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