The Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    By William Riches

    Cohen, Michael J. American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division . Oxford University Press, New York, 2016. Cooper, William Jr and Thomas Terrill, The American South: A History . Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement: A Historical Exploration of Literature
    The Civil Rights Movement: A Historical Exploration of Literature
    By Michael D. Hill

    This book places canonical texts of African American literature in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, a watershed moment in time that framed the composition, publication, and reception of these works.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Revised Edition
    The Civil Rights Movement: Revised Edition
    By Bruce J Dierenfield

    In the field of school desegregation, one must begin with Richard Kluger's magisterial work, SimpleJustice (1975). Mark Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education (1987), is a study before Brown.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Elizabeth Sirimarco

    Barnett was told that if he did not let Meredith into the school , he would be arrested . Following is his statement to the people of Mississippi on September 30 , the day before Meredith arrived at the Ole Miss campus .

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Michael V. Uschan

    Quoted in Wyn Craig Wade, The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. ... Quoted in Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream—Address at March on Washington, August 28, 1963, Washington, DC,” MLK Online. http://www.mlkonline.net/ ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Jennifer Joline Anderson

    The Little Rock Nine, as they became known, were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo. been pushed in a corner.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Michael Anderson

    For nearly 50 years from 1924 to 1972 – the FBI was led by a man named J. Edgar Hoover . ... Kennedy administration When John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960 , civil rights activists believed that they would finally get the ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Then and Now
    The Civil Rights Movement: Then and Now
    By Lucia Raatma, Dan Elish

    That night an African American woman named Jo Ann Robinson called the leaders of the Women's Political Council. Together they decided to stage a boycott of the Montgomery bus lines, starting that coming Monday. Robinson stayed up all ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    By William Terence Martin Riches

    The civil rights movement led to the dismantlement of institutionalised racism and transformed American society.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    By William Riches

    This brand new edition of The Civil Rights Movement chronicles the growth of the mass movement from its origins after the Second World War to the destruction of segregated society, before charting the movement’s path through the 20th ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
    By William Terence Martin Riches

    This popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: A Reference Guide, 2nd Edition
    The Civil Rights Movement: A Reference Guide, 2nd Edition
    By Peter B. Levy

    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 protest.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Peter B. Levy

    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 ...

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By James Tackach

    Discusses the need, goals and strategies, and historical assessment of the civil rights movement from a variety of viewpoints.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: Advocating for Equality
    The Civil Rights Movement: Advocating for Equality
    By Tamra B. Orr

    On May 17, 1954, justices voted 9–0 that separate and unequal schools violated the rights of black students. Chief Justice Earl Warren ... Lynch her!'”48 When the students got to the door of the school, the soldiers turned them away.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America
    The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America
    By Bruce J. Dierenfield

    This book will provide students of American history with a compelling and comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights Movement.

  • The Civil Rights Movement: The History of Black People in America, 1930-1980
    The Civil Rights Movement: The History of Black People in America, 1930-1980
    By Stuart Kallen

    This tells of the campaign for civil rights waged by Blacks from 1930 to 1980.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Rebecca Thatcher Murcia

    At the time that Rosa Parks decided not to get out of her bus seat in 1955, African Americans across the United States were treated like second-class citizens.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Heather Adamson

    OR . . . Help desegregate bus lines as a Freedom Rider? OR . . . Get involved in the Project C protests in Birmingham, Alabama? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next.

  • The Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Movement
    By Eric Braun

    The Civil Rights Movement started in the 1800s and remains a prominent movement within our modern society.