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The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights
- Title
- The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights / Thomas C. Holt.
- Author
- Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 151 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of ordinary people.
- Subject
- To 1999
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964
- African Americans > Social conditions > 1964-1975
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Civil rights movements
- Race relations
- Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- United States > History > 1953-1961
- United States > History > 1961-1969
- Southern States
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Carrie's rebellion -- Before Montgomery -- Communities organizing for change : New South cities -- Communities organizing for change : the New "Old South" -- Organizing in "the American Congo" : Mississippi's Freedom Summer and its aftermath -- Freedom movements in the North -- Legacies : "Freedom is a constant struggle".
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-179
- ISBN
- 9780197525791
- 0197525792
- LCCN
- 2020035036
- OCLC
- 1153010240
- Author
- Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942- author.
- Title
- The movement : the African American struggle for civil rights / Thomas C. Holt.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- To 1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-179