The civil rights movement: a documentary reader 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1119583624
• ISBN-13: 9781119583622
• Author: John A. Kirk

Designed for use in a wide range of curricula, The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader presents an in-depth exploration of the multiple facets and layers of the movement, providing a wide range of primary sources, commentary, and perspectives. 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. Through these, students will develop a sophisticated, nuanced understanding of the origins of the movement, its pivotal years during the 1950s and 1960s, and its legacy that extends to the present day.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 2: Brown v. Board of Education and Massive Resistance, 1954–6

Chapter 3: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1955–7

Chapter 4: The Little Rock Crisis and Desegregation in Education, 1957–62

Chapter 5: The Sit‐Ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960

Chapter 6: The Freedom Rides and the Congress of Racial Equality, 1961

Chapter 7: Albany, Birmingham, and the March on Washington, 1961–3

Chapter 8: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Freedom Summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964

Chapter 9: The Selma Campaign and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Chapter 10: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South, 1965–75

Chapter 11: Black Power, 1966

Chapter 12: Vietnam, Economic Justice, and the Poor People’s Campaign, 1967–8

Chapter 13: Affirmative Action, 1960s–1980s

Chapter 14: Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement

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