The Civil Rights Movement: A Reference Guide

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Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series Foreword
Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Events
Chapter 1. The Modern Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
Chapter 2. Freedom\'s Coming and It Won\'t Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 3. Mississippi: \"Is This America?\" A Case Study of the Movement
Chapter 4. In the North Too: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of Dixie
Chapter 5. Sisterhood Is Powerful: Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 6. From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Biographical Essays
	Ella Jo Baker (1903-1986)
	Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1941-1998)
	Septima Clark (1898-1987)
	Angela Davis (1944-)
	Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
	James Farmer (1920-1999)
	Fannie Lou Hamer (Townsend) (1917-1977)
	Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
	John Lewis (1940- )
	Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925-1965)
	Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
	Clarence Maurice Mitchell, Jr. (1911-1984)
	Robert Parris Moses (1935- )
	Huey P. Newton (1942-1989)
	Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005)
	A. (Asa) Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
	Gloria St. Clair Hayes Richardson (1922- )
	Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
	Nina Simone (1933-2003)
	Roy Ottoway Wilkins (1901-1981)
	Robert F. Williams (1929-1996)
	Robert Zellner (1939- )
Primary Documents
	1. Civil Rights Congress, We Charge Genocide (1951)
	2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
	3. From Testimony of Mose Wright, Trial of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam (1955)
	4. From President Dwight D. Eisenhower, \"Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock\" (1957)
	5. Robert Moses, \"Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell\" (1961)
	6. George C. Wallace, \"Inaugural Address\" (1963)
	7. From John F. Kennedy, \"Address on Civil Rights\" (1963)
	8. Remarks by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Black Leaders on Birmingham Bombing Made at Private Meeting at the White House with President John F. Kennedy and Black Leaders (September 19, 1963)
	9. From Fannie Lou Hamer, \"Testimony before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention,\" Atlantic City, New Jersey (1964)
	10. Gloria Richardson, \"Focus on Freedom—Here and Now,\" Freedomways (1964)
	11. Summary of Malcolm X\'s \"Ballot or Bullet Speech,\" Detroit, Michigan (April 14, 1964)
	12. Excerpts from President Lyndon B. Johnson, \"To Fulfill These Rights: Commencement Address at Howard University,\" Washington, D.C. (1965)
	13. Stokely Carmichael, \"Address at Black Congress Rally,\" Los Angeles, California (1968)
	14. From \"Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders\" (1968)
	15. From \"Opening Statement\" in Akil Al-Jundi, et al. v. The Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller, et al. (1991)
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Index