| Description |
xi, 176 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The American ways series |
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American ways series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-168) and index. |
| Summary |
This is the story of the drive to free the American South from the shackles of legally sanctioned racial segregation. To chart the course of the American civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 in fewer than 200 pages - and do it justice - is a remarkable accomplishment. This is what John Salmond has done, in a lively and compact narrative. Mr. Salmond sets the scene by looking at the first stirrings of black unrest prompted by New Deal policies in the 1930s and by the liberating experiences of blacks abroad and at home during World War II. He notes how labor activism; federal attempts at racial justice, and unheralded private initiatives after the war marked the beginnings of change in the South. Meanwhile the NAACP continued a sophisticated legal struggle to secure black equality through the courts. When the Supreme Court overturned school segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the issue was joined for the South and the nation. Mr. Salmond traces the Southern opposition to change as it confronted a growing black militancy led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. Dramatic, often violent events captured the nation's attention. Ultimately the Kennedy administration responded to growing pressures. When Lyndon Johnson secured the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it was clear the movement had triumphed - yet it was also starting to unravel. In taking the story to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Mr. Salmond explains the collapse of the civil rights movement but shows how it transformed the American South. |
| Contents |
First legal challenges -- The New Deal -- Regional protest groups -- Local organizations -- The Emmett Till case -- The Brown decision announced -- Reaction to the Brown decision -- Autherine Lucy -- Crisis at Little Rock -- Massive resistance -- James Meredith at Ole Miss -- George Wallace and the University of Alabama -- The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- The rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- King's philosophy -- The formation of SCLC -- Failure at Albany -- The Birmingham campaign -- Kennedy's involvement -- THe march on Washington -- The Greensboro movement -- The movement spreads -- Freedom rides -- Origins of SNCC -- The Voting Rights campaign -- "Freedom summer." -- Malcolm X |
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The Eisenhower administration -- The election of 1960 -- Kennedy and civil rights -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- White backlash -- The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party -- The election of 1964 -- The Selma campaign -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- The end of school segregation -- Collapse of the movement -- "Black power." -- King's Chicago sojourn -- The "poor people's campaign" -- The death of Martin Luther King -- Effect of the Voting Rights Act -- Black political participation -- School desegregation and its effects -- Southern justice -- The wealth disparity -- King's legacy. |
| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Salmond, John A. My mind set on freedom. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c1997 (OCoLC)606165040 |
| ISBN |
1566631408 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781566631402 cloth alkaline paper |
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1566631416 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781566631419 paperback alkaline paper |
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