My Mind Set on Freedom

A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

John A. Salmond (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

189 Seiten

1998
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56663-141-9 (ISBN)

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A compact, remarkably successful narrative history of the civil rights movement, 1954–1968, chronicling the major events, describing the key players, and showing how the revolution transformed the American South. American Ways Series.

John A. Salmond is professor of American history at La Trobe University in Australia. He has written widely on Southern history and is author of Gastonia, 1929: The Conscience of a Lawyer; and A Southern Rebel.

Part 1 Preface ix
Part 2 THE GATHERING STORM 3
Chapter 3 First legal challenges. The New Deal. Regional protest groups. Local organizations. The Emmett Till case. The Brown decision announced.
Part 4 THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR 27
Chapter 5 Reaction to the Brown decision. Autherine Lucy. Crisis at Little Rock. Massive resistance. James Meredith at Ole Miss. George Wallace and the University of Alabama.
Part 6 "I HAVE A DREAM" 51
Chapter 7 The Montgomery Bus Boycott. The rise of martin Luther King, Jr. King's philosophy. The formation of SCLC. Failure at Albany. The Birmingham campaign. Kennedy's involvement. The March on Washington.
Part 8 "SITTING-IN FOR JUSTICE, RIDING FOR FREEDOM" 81
Chapter 9 The Greensboro movement. The movement spreads. Freedom Rides. Origins of SNCC. The Voting Rights campaign. "Freedom Summer." Malcolm X.
Part 10 THE NATIONAL RESPONSE 106
Chapter 11 The Eisenhower administration. The election of 1960. Kennedy and civil rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1964. White backlash. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. The election of 1964.
Part 12 THE END OF THE MOVEMENT 127
13 The Selma campaign. The Voting Rights Act of 1965. The end of school segregation. Collapse of the movement. "Black power." King's Chicago sojourn. The "Poor People's campaign." The death of Martin Luther King.
Part 14 THE NEW SOUTH 149
Chapter 15 Effect of the Voting Rights Act. Black political participation. School desegregation and its effects. Southern justice. The wealth disparity. King's legacy.
Part 16 A Note on Sources 165
Part 17 Index 169

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.1998
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 210 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-56663-141-6 / 1566631416
ISBN-13	978-1-56663-141-9 / 9781566631419
Zustand	Neuware