The civil rights movement / edited by Jack E. Davis.

The civil rights movement / edited by Jack E. Davis.

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Davis, Jack E., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
Series:Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 3.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Race relations > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 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.
  • pt. 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. Anticommunism, anti-civil rights
  • Introduction
  • Article : Race and red-baiting / Adam Fairclough
  • Document A : Defenders' news and views, August-September, 1959
  • Document B : Letter to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, 1960
  • Further reading.
  • pt. 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
  • Document A : The conversion of Peggy Terry, ca. 1950s
  • Document B : "One cannot be a Christian and a segregationist too," 1979
  • Further reading
  • 6. Women in the civil rights movements
  • 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
  • Document C : Clarice T. Campbell correspondence, summer 1956
  • Further reading.
  • pt. 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, 1962-3
  • 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.
  • pt. 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 "progressivism" / Ronald H. Bayor
  • Document A : Voter registration testimonies, ca. 1960s
  • Document B : Petition, August 29, 1965
  • Document C : Show v. Reno, 1993
  • Further reading.
  • pt. VI. The continuing saga
  • 11. Environmental injustice
  • Introduction
  • Article : from NIMBY to civil rights : the origins of the environmental justice movement / Eileen Maura McGurty
  • Document A : Slum clearance, community style, ca. 1940s
  • Document B : Letter addressing lead poisoning, 1957
  • Further reading
  • 12. Affirmative action
  • Introduction
  • Article : Race, history, and policy, African Americans and civil rights since 1964 / Hugh Davis Graham
  • Document A : The Kerner report, employment report, introduction, 1968
  • Document B : Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973)
  • Further reading.

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