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The American civil rights movement : a documentary history / edited by Robert P. Green, Jr. and Harold E. Cheatham.
- Title
- The American civil rights movement : a documentary history / edited by Robert P. Green, Jr. and Harold E. Cheatham.
- Publication
- Manchester, UK ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xvi, 224 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This study collects over 100 documents reflecting key aspects of the civil rights movement. The book addresses the shortcomings of capsule histories of the movement, histories that neglect to describe the range of public and private institutions, organizations, and individuals that contributed to its accomplishments.
- Series Statement
- Documents in modern history
- Uniform Title
- Documents in modern history
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 'Nobody knows the trouble I've seen': dimensions of Jim Crow -- 'Walk together children': elements of resistance -- 'We are soldiers in the army': emergence of the movement -- 'I'm a rollin': the movement gains momentum -- 'Up above my head': Albany to the Civil Rights Ac t of 1964 -- 'I shall not be moved;: freedom summer, Selma, and the Voting rights Act of 1965 -- 'We'll soon be free': Northern efforts, Black Power, legal endorsements -- 'Oh, freedom': contemporary expressions.
- ISBN
- 9780719070129 (hbk.)
- 0719070120 (hbk.)
- 0719070139 (pbk.)
- 9780719070136 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 317452560
- SCSB-11171409
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library