In pre-publication, the author was listed as Lucia Raatma.
Clark personally pinned Annie Lee Cooper to the ground and pummeled her with his fists in front of a cameraman . On February 1 , King , Abernathy , and over seven hundred demonstrators , many of them schoolchildren , staged a mass ...
Offers a brief history of the African American struggle for freedom, equality, and civil rights.
Focusing on documents, this volume offers students concise yet comprehensive analysis of the civil rights movement by covering both well-known and relatively unfamiliar texts.
The civil rights movement was one of the most important social justice movements in American history, and readers are sure to be captivated by this in-depth look at the leaders and moments that defined this period.
A collection of essays analyzing and emphasizing the origins, strategies, creative tensions, and politics of the Civil Rights Movement
This book spotlights the rise of the civil rights movement, offering a look at one of the remarkable and influential movements in US history.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most turbulent times in American history. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was eventually passed after years...
When slavery ended in the United States, white America's opinion that blacks were second class citizens did not. For more than a century afterwards African Americans struggled to obtain basic...
How the civil rights movement is currently being rememberedin American politics and culture - and why it matters - is the commontheme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection.Memories of the movement are being created and ...
"An intriguing look at the interplay of race and class, this work is both scholarly and jargon-free. A sophisticated study." —Library Journal"This is an exciting book... combining... dramatic episodes with...