The Civil Rights Movement [Hardcover]

The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best new scholarship on what is arguably the most important American social movement of the twentieth century. Designed for students, the volume contains twelve essays and supporting primary documents arranged chronologically and by topic with a detailed timeline and further reading lists. Emphasizing the wide chronological and geographic scope of the movement, this collection provides a perfect source for teaching the movement with a fresh perspective and new ideas.Introduction.

List of Acronyms.

Chronology.

Part I: Sowing Seeds.

1. Foundations.

Introduction.

Article: Southern Reformers, the New Deal, and the Movement's Foundation. (Patricia Sullivan).

Document A: Street Car Petition, Jacksonville, Florida, 1901.

Document B: NAACP School Desegregation Petition, 1955.

Further Reading.

2. Labor and Civil Rights.

Introduction.

Article: Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II. (Bruce Nelson).

Document A : Transcription of Tape Documentary on Natchez Laundry Workers Strike, October 17, 1965.

Document B: Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner, 1964.

Further Reading.

Part II: Defiance.

3. White Resistance.

Introduction.

Article: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964. (Thomas J. Sugrue).

Document A:Untitled Little Rock Poem, ca. 1957.

Document B: Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Broadside, ca 1960s.

Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. Up North, Down South, cartoons, 19lS�