Research Catalog

Title

Debating the civil rights movement, 1945-1968 / Steven F. Lawson and Charles Payne ; introduction by James T. Patterson.

Author

Lawson, Steven F., 1945-

Publication

Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Payne, Charles M.

Description

vii, 227 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Debating twentieth-century America

Uniform Title

Debating twentieth-century America.

Subjects

• United States > Race relations > Historiography
• United States > Race relations > Sources
• Civil rights movements > United States > Historiography
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Sources
• African Americans > Civil rights > Historiography
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Debating the Civil Rights Movement: The view from the Nation / Steve F. Lawson; Excerpt from To Secure these Rights: the Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights (1947); Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (March 12, 1956); Dwight D. Eisenhower's Radio and Television address to the American people on the Situation in Little Rock (September 24, 1957); Excerpts from Hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Montgomery, Alabama (December 8 and 9, 1958); The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 17 and 18, 1963); John F. Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights (June 11, 1963); Letter from Wiley A. Branton, Director, Voter Education Project, to Aaron Henry and Robert Moses (November 12, 1963); Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise (March 15, 1965; Excerpt from the Introduction to the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (March 1968); Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last SCLC Presidential Address: Where Do We Go from Here? (1967) Debating the Civil Rights Movement: The View from the Trenches / Charles Payne; Documents; Excerpt from Ella J. Baker's "Bigger Than a Hamburger? (June 1960); Handbill, Albany Nonviolent Movement (November 9, 1961); Chronology of Violence and Intimidation in Mississippi (1963); Student Voice Editorial and Cartoon on the FBI (November 25, 1964); Poster from East Selma, Alabama, from the Student Voice (August 30, 1965); "This Transformation of People": An Interview with Bob Moses; An Interview with Eldridge W. Steptoe, Jr.; An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer.

ISBN

• 0742551091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780742551091

LCCN

^^2006002135

OCLC

63472446

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library