The civil rights movement / Paul A. Winters, book editor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Winters, Paul A., 1965-
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2000], ©2000.
Series:Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:287 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.