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Author:   Peter B. Levy (York College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   ABC-CLIO
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781440863004

ISBN 10:   1440863008
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   19 July 2019
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Series Foreword Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition Acknowledgments Chronology of Events Chapter 1. The Modern Civil Rights Movement: An Overview Chapter 2. Freedom's Coming and It Won't Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 3. Mississippi: ""Is This America?"" A Case Study of the Movement Chapter 4. In the North Too: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of Dixie Chapter 5. Sisterhood Is Powerful: Women and the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 6. From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter Biographical Essays Ella Jo Baker (1903–1986) Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1941–1998) Septima Clark (1898–1987) Angela Davis (1944– ) Medgar Evers (1925–1963) James Farmer (1920–1999) Fannie Lou Hamer (Townsend) (1917–1977) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) John Lewis (1940– ) Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925–1965) Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Clarence Maurice Mitchell, Jr. (1911–1984) Robert Parris Moses (1935– ) Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913–2005) A. (Asa) Philip Randolph (1889–1979) Gloria St. Clair Hayes Richardson (1922– ) Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) Nina Simone (1933–2003) Roy Ottoway Wilkins (1901–1981) Robert F. Williams (1929–1996) Robert Zellner (1939– ) Primary Documents 1. Civil Rights Congress, We Charge Genocide (1951) 2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) 3. From Testimony of Mose Wright, Trial of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam (1955) 4. From President Dwight D. Eisenhower, ""Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock"" (1957) 5. Robert Moses, ""Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell"" (1961) 6. George C. Wallace, ""Inaugural Address"" (1963) 7. From John F. Kennedy, ""Address on Civil Rights"" (1963) 8. Remarks by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Black Leaders on Birmingham Bombing Made at Private Meeting at the White House with President John F. Kennedy and Black Leaders (September 19, 1963) 9. From Fannie Lou Hamer, ""Testimony before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention,"" Atlantic City, New Jersey (1964) 10. Gloria Richardson, ""Focus on Freedom—Here and Now,"" Freedomways (1964) 11. Summary of Malcolm X's ""Ballot or Bullet Speech,"" Detroit, Michigan (April 14, 1964) 12. Excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson, ""To Fulfill These Rights: Commencement Address at Howard University,"" Washington, D.C. (1965) 13. Stokely Carmichael, ""Address at Black Congress Rally,"" Los Angeles, California (1968) 14. From ""Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders"" (1968) 15. From ""Opening Statement"" in Akil Al-Jundi, et al. v. The Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, et al. (1991) Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index"

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Peter B. Levy, PhD, is professor of history at York College, York, PA. He is author of over a dozen books, including The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s.

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