The Civil Rights Movement

Synopsis

A vivid, lively, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to the Civil Rights movement.

• Provides a detailed discussion of the racism that accompanied slavery in America and thereafter consigned African-Americans to an inferior position
• Addresses the actions of racists, liberals, and reformers and radicals
• Discusses local reformers who laboured for years to get the movement off the ground
• Provides documents covering the most important aspects of the modern civil rights movement
• Contains Maps and Photographs, as well as a Glossary, Chronology, a Who's Who list of key figures, and a Guide to Further Reading
• The chronology and glossary sections are the most detailed of their kind