The Civil Rights Movement by Jack E Davis

The Civil Rights Movement by Jack E Davis

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Summary

This volume offers a collection of 12 essays covering arguably the most important American social movement of the 20th century. The readings cover pre-World War II activism to the era of affirmative action, addressing historiographic problems found in recent studies of the movement.

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The Civil Rights Movement by Jack E Davis

The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best new scholarship on what is arguably the most important American social movement of the twentieth century. Designed for students, the volume contains twelve essays and supporting primary documents arranged chronologically and by topic with a detailed timeline and further reading lists. Emphasizing the wide chronological and geographic scope of the movement, this collection provides a perfect source for teaching the movement with a fresh perspective and new ideas.
"This volume offers a collection of informative essays and supporting documents on the Civil Rights Movement that will stimulate classroom discussionsIt expands coverage of the movement temporally and geographically, venturing away from the standard 1954-1968 time frame and ranging beyond the familiar sites of racial contention to less heralded but important ones, in the North as well as the South." Steven Lawson, Rutgers University

"Students and teachers alike will find much here to challenge stereotypical assumptions and to prompt critical thinking and analysis, as interpretative frameworks are constructed and defended ... Davis is able to make clear that the struggle for equal rights for African American people was one that energized and mobilized ordinary people from all walks of life to work for a common goal. The extraordinary efforts of those ordinary people changed the history of a nation forever." History: Reviews of New Books

Jack E. Davis teaches history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930 (2001).
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ISBN 13 9780631220442
ISBN 10 0631220445
Title The Civil Rights Movement
Author Jack E Davis
Series Wiley Blackwell Readers In American Social And Cultural History
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 2000-08-14
Number of pages 340
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