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Title:
The civil rights movement
Author:
Winters, Paul A., 1965-
Publication Information:
San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
287 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
The fight for rights begins -- Litigation and political lobbying -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott -- Nonviolence and racial justice -- Malcom X and Black nationalism -- Southern states sidestep desegregation orders -- Massive resistance by Southern states -- The Federal Government's litigation strategy -- Peaceful demonstrations and radical tactics -- The student sit-in campaign -- Civil disobedience in Birmingham -- The march on Washington -- Blacks question the multiracial movement -- Churches join the movement -- Freedom summer -- The ineffectiveness of nonviolence -- From protest to politics -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Johnson and the white backlash -- The end of the Civil Rights Coalition -- The Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966 -- The Anti-War movement -- The fight for rights continues -- Integration or anti-discrimination? -- Equal economic opportunity -- Black voting in Mississippi.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 11.3 15.0 41137.
ISBN:
9780737702170

9780737702163
Format :
Book