The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance [Paperback]

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a compelling overview of the growth of the mass movement from its origins after the Second World War to the destruction of segregated society, before charting the movements path through the twentieth century up to the present day.

This is an ideal core text for modules on Civil Rights History or American History since 1945 - or a supplementary text for broader modules on American History, African-American History or Modern US Politics - which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate History, Politics or American Studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying the Civil Rights Movement for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in American History, US Politics or American Studies.

Focusing on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945 to today, Riches shows how the black community used the institutions created by de jure segregation to overcome apartheid and white resistance. In this updated new edition, Riches incorporates the latest scholarship and provides a detailed analysis of Obama's first term in office.

Preface to the Third Edition.- Acknowledgements.- Glossary.- List of Acronyms.- Introduction.- 1. Transformation of Politics: Civil Rights 1948-58.- 2. Grass-Roots Struggle in the South.- 3. The Struggle Intensifies: JFK and a New Frontier?.- 4. Triumphs and Tragedies: LBJ, The Great Society and the Limits of Liberalism.- 5. The New Right and Civil Rights.- 6. Transformation: A New South?.- 7. Willie Horton and the Southern Strategy: Bush Sr.- 8. A Third Way from Hope? Bill Clinton.- 9. 1876 and All That: George W. Bush.- 10. 'Post-Racial' America? Barack Obama.- Epilogue: The Great Divide: The Election of 2016.- Bibliography.- Index.

William T. Martin Riches was formerly Senior Lecturer and Convenor of American Stuls4