The Civil rights movement in America : essays / by David Levering Lewis [and others] ; edited by Charles W. Eagles. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, �1986. - 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) - [Chancellor's symposium series] . - Chancellor's symposium series. .

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

The origins and causes of the civil rights movement / Civil rights reform and the Black freedom struggle / Creative tensions in the leadership of the civil rights movement / The politics of Mississippi movement, 1954-1964 / Federal law and the courts in the civil rights movement / The end of one struggle, the beginning of another / David Levering Lewis -- Clayborne Carson, comment: Steven F. Lawson -- Nancy J. Weiss, comment: David J. Garrow -- John Dittmer, comment: Neil R. McMillen -- Charles V. Hamilton, comment: Mark V. Tushnet -- 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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African Americans--Civil rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--African American Studies.
Race relations
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS.

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