Civil Rights Movement - David

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Résumé :
The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best new scholarship on what is arguably the most important American social movement of the twentieth century. Designed for students, the volume contains twelve essays and supporting primary documents arranged chronologically and by topic with a detailed timeline and further reading lists. Emphasizing the wide chronological and geographic scope of the movement, this collection provides a perfect source for teaching the movement with a fresh perspective and new ideas....

Biographie:
The author is a retired technologist / geophysical surveyor with interests in earth science, remote sensing and ancient history. His initial aim was to scientifically assess major biblical events which underpin thousands of years of Israel and Middle Eastern history. The author undertook a familiarisation trip to Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Israel and Jordan as part of the process, but the focus turned dramatically from history to prophecy after some inspirational episodes on return. The author has tertiary qualifications in Engineering and Applied Science....

Sommaire:
Introduction.

List of Acronyms.

Chronology.

Part I: Sowing Seeds.

1. Foundations.

Introduction.

Article: Southern Reformers, the New Deal, and the Movement's Foundation. (Patricia Sullivan).

Document A: Street Car Petition, Jacksonville, Florida, 1901.

Document B: NAACP School Desegregation Petition, 1955.

Further Reading.

2. Labor and Civil Rights.

Introduction.

Article: Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II. (Bruce Nelson).

Document A : Transcription of Tape Documentary on Natchez Laundry Workers Strike, October 17, 1965.

Document B: Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner, 1964.

Further Reading.

Part II: Defiance.

3. White Resistance.

Introduction.

Article: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964. (Thomas J. Sugrue).

Document A:Untitled Little Rock Poem, ca. 1957.

Document B: Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Broadside, ca 1960s.

Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. Up North, Down South, cartoons, 1963.

Further Reading.

4. Anti-Communism, Anti-Civil Rights.

Introduction.

Article: Race and Red-Baiting. (Adam Fairclough).

Document A: Defender's News and View's Aug-Sept 1959.

Letter to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, 1960.

Further Reading.

Part III: Participants.

5. Liberals and Moderates.

Introduction.

Article: South of the South?: Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. (Raymond A. Mohl).

Documents:.

Document A: The Conversion of Peggy Terry, ca 1950s.

Document B: One can not be a Christian and a Segregationist, Too, 1979.

Further Reading.

6. Women in the Civil Rights Movement.

Introduction.

Article: Passing the Torch: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement: LaVerne Gyant.

Document A: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Special Plight and Role of Black Women, 1971.

Document B: Septima Poinsette Clark Memoir, 1979, 1984.

Clarice T. Campbell Correspondence, summer 1956.

Further Reading.

Part IV: Local-National Relationships.

7. The NAACP.

Introduction.

Article: The NAACP in North Carolina during the Age of Segregation. (Raymond Gavins).

Document A:NAACP v. Button, 1963.

Document B: Jackson, Mississippi, Boycott Campaign, 1962-63.

Further Reading.

8. Grassroots.

Introduction.

Article: Baseball's Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961-1964. (Jack E. Davis).

Document A: Siege at Savannah, 1964.

Document B: People in Motion: The Story of the Birmingham Movement, 1966.

Further Reading.

Part V: Empowerment.

9. Black Power and Culture.

Introduction.

Article: New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. (William L. Van DeBurg).

Document A:Robert Williams, Negroes With Guns, 1962.

Document B: Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, The Search for New Forms, 1967.

Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. cartoon, 1968.

Further Reading.

10. Political Power.

Introduction.

Article: The Civil Rights Movement as Urban Reform: Atlanta's Black Neighborhoods and a New Progessivism: Ronald H. Bayor.

Document A: Voter Registration Testimonies, ca 1960s.

Document B: Petition, August 29, 1965.

Document C: Shaw v. Reno, 1993.

Part VI: The Continuing Saga.

11. Environmental Injustice.

Introduction...