The Civil Rights Movement: Revised Edition

A vivid, lively, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights movement.

• Provides a detailed discussion of the racism that accompanied slavery in America and thereafter consigned African-Americans to an inferior position
• Addresses the actions of  racists, liberals, and reformers and radicals
• Discusses local reformers who laboured for years to get the movement off the ground
• Provides documents covering the most important aspects of the modern civil rights movement
• Contains Maps and Photographs, as well as a Glossary, Chronology, a Who's Who list of key figures, and a Guide to Further Reading
• The chronology and glossary sections are the most detailed of their kind

Chronology

Abbreviations

Who’s Who

Glossary

Maps

List of plates

PART ONE: The Mississippi Plan

1. Jim Crow South

PART TWO:  The New Negro
2. Origins of the Movement
3. The Brown Decision
4. Little Rock Crisis
PART THREE:  Freedom Bound
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
6. Sit-Ins
7. Freedom Ride
8. Battle Of Ole Miss
9. Bombingham
10. March On Washington
PART FOUR:  The Movement Fractures
11. Freedom Summer
12. Bloody Sunday
PART FIVE: The Dream Deferred
13. Black Power
 Assessment

PART SIX: DOCUMENTS

FURTHER READING

INDEX