Bibliograph

The civil rights movement, Mark Newman

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The civil rights movement, Mark Newman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The civil rights movement

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

56584865

Responsibility statement

Mark Newman

Series statement

BAAS paperbacks

Summary

"This introduction to the civil rights movement synthesises its history, explaining its origins, development and results as well as historiographical debates ... [The author] outlines the range of white responses to the movement and analyses both northern and southern opinion. He examines the role of the federal government, the church and organised labour, as well as assessing the impact of the Cold War. The book discusses local, regional, and national civil rights campaigns; the utility of non-violent direct action; and the resurgence of black nationalism. And it explains the development, achievement and disintegration of the national civil rights coalition, the role of Martin Luther King Jr and the contribution of many otherwise ordinary men and women to the movement. The insufficiently appreciated National Association for the Advancement of Colored People receives particular attention ... In detailing the struggle between the 1930s and 1980s, [the author] widens the movement's traditional chronology, offering readers a broad-ranging history"--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Chronology -- 1. Prerequisites for change -- 2. The emergence of the movement, 1941-59 -- 3. The end of Jim Crow in the South, 1960-5 -- 4. The disintegration of the national civil rights coalition, 1964-8 -- 5. Civil rights in a conservative era -- 6. Conclusion

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