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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... bills enacted since Reconstruction. At the time, commentators speculated that Johnson had changed his mind, hoping to enlarge his appeal nationally and to increase his availability as a Democratic presidential candidate.” On the basis ...
... bill acceptable to northern moderates and southern conservatives." In contrast, Joe B. Frantz pays less attention to the political considerations influencing Johnson's decisions. Drawing upon interviews from the Johnson Library Oral ...
... bill introduced in June.” An extraordinary document contained in the prepresidential files of the Johnson Library reveals LBJ's reservations about Kennedy's civil rights strategy. On June 3, 1963, the vice-president and Theodore ...
... bill that was even stronger than the one they'd have gotten if Kennedy had lived. Without this, I'd be dead before I could even begin.” At the outset, the martyrdom of John Kennedy and vivid memories of southern blacks suffering “Bull ...
... bills occurred under varying circumstances within a short span of years. When Johnson took office on November 22, 1963, his predecessor's civil rights bill lay stalled in the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives. The Kennedy ...
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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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