Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

The origins and causes of the civil rights movement / David Levering Lewis -- Civil rights reform and the Black freedom struggle / Clayborne Carson, comment: Steven F. Lawson -- Creative tensions in the leadership of the civil rights movement / Nancy J. Weiss, comment: David J. Garrow -- The politics of Mississippi movement, 1954-1964 / John Dittmer, comment: Neil R. McMillen -- Federal law and the courts in the civil rights movement / Charles V. Hamilton, comment: Mark V. Tushnet -- The end of one struggle, the beginning of another / William H. Chafe, comment: J. Mills Thornton III.

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The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed relations between the races that C. Vann Woodward has called it the "second revolution."In a limited space the eleven scholars range with a definitive view over a large subject. Their paper

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