John G. Sproat, "Perspectives on Desegregation in South Carolina," in Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish, eds., New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986), pp, 164-84, ...
The authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear guide to the political, social and cultural history of black Americans and their pursuit of equality from 1865 to the present day.
This new reader comprises an extensive collection of primary and secondary documents of the American Civil Rights movement. These documents are complemented by analytical and interpretive essays by the editor,...
Rouse, Lugenia Burns Hope, 118; David Andrew Harmon, Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations, Atlanta, Georgia, 1946- 1981 (New York: Garland, 1996), 58. For an early identi fication of the pioneering work of ...
The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its ...
SUNDAY IN JAIL, WASHINGTON, DC, 1861 In December 1861, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly published this spread commenting on depraved conditions on a Sunday in the Washington jail. In the center, a group of African American men and boys ...
This book collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues ...
In this singe volume, Robert Weisbrot gives a vivid, admirably balanced history of the civil rights movement--from its rise with the Brown decision and the Montgomery bus boycott in the...
This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.
Although Arizona State University at Tempe offered courses in Mexican American topics , it did not formally establish a Chicano studies program ... Phoenix : Arizona Academy , 1981 ; Officer , James E. Hispanic Arizona , 1536-1856 .