The Civil Rights Movement

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Advisory Board vi
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Chronology of Events xvii
• The Civil Rights Movement Explained 1
• 1 - The Modern Civil Rights Movement: an Overview 3
• Notes 35
• 2 - Freedom's Coming and It Won't Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 39
• Notes 56
• 3 - Mississippi: "Is This America?" A Case Study of the Movement 59
• Notes 77
• 4 - With All Deliberate Speed: The Fight for Legal Equality 79

• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Advisory Board vi
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Chronology of Events xvii
• The Civil Rights Movement Explained 1
• 1 - The Modern Civil Rights Movement: an Overview 3
• Notes 35
• 2 - Freedom's Coming and It Won't Be Long: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 39
• Notes 56
• 3 - Mississippi: "Is This America?" A Case Study of the Movement 59
• Notes 77
• 4 - With All Deliberate Speed: The Fight for Legal Equality 79
• Notes 100
• 5 - Sisterhood is Powerful: Women and the Civil Rights Movement 103
• Notes 119
• 6 - A Second Redemption? 121
• Biographies - The Personalities Behind the Civil Rights Movement 127
• Primary Documents Of the Civil Rights Movement 149
• Glossary of Selected Terms 199
• Annotated Bibliography 205
• Index 215
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