The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America

ISBN-13: 9781138681804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Bruce J. Dierenfield

Opis

Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement recounts the story of how thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more continue to fight for racial justice in the wake of continuing police killings of unarmed black men and women.

Spis treści

Part One: Up From Slavery  1. The Jim Crow South  Part Two: Seeds of Change  2. Origins of the Black Freedom Struggle  3. The Making of Massive Resistance  Part Three: The Assault on Jim Crow  4. Freedom Walkers  5. The Wayward Lieutenant  6. Freedom’s on the Menu  7. Freedom Riders  8. The Battle of Ole Miss  9. Bombingham  10. Let Freedom Ring  Part Four: The Voting Rights Campaign  11. Freedom Summer  12. Bloody Sunday  Part Five: The Ghetto Explodes  13. Black Power  Part Six: The Freedom Struggle Resumes  14. Black Lives Matter  Part Seven: Documents

O autorze

Bruce J. Dierenfield is Professor Emeritus of History and the former director of the All-College Honors Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA. The prize-winning author of five other books, he has been a senior Fulbright scholar in Germany, held a Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the African American Experience, and is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.