The civil rights movement / Mark Newman.

"This introduction to the civil rights movement synthesises its history, explaining its origins, development and results as well as historiographical debates ... [The author] outlines the range of white responses to the movement and analyses both northern and southern opinion. He examines the r...

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Main Author: Newman, Mark (Historian)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2004]
Series:BAAS paperbacks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • 1. Prerequisites for change
  • 2. The emergence of the movement, 1941-59
  • 3. The end of Jim Crow in the South, 1960-5
  • 4. The disintegration of the national civil rights coalition, 1964-8
  • 5. Civil rights in a conservative era
  • 6. Conclusion.