Atlanta and the civil rights movement : 1944-1968 / Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sims-Alvarado, Karcheik, author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations--Pictorial works.

Atlanta (Ga.).

Alabama--Birmingham.

Georgia--Atlanta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive group of black business, civic, and religious leaders from Atlanta, Georgia, challenged the status quo by employing a method of incremental gradualism to improve the social and political conditions existent within the city. By the mid-20th century, a younger generation of activists emerged, seeking a more direct and radical approach towards exercising their rights as full citizens. A culmination of the death of Emmett Till and the Brown decision fostered this paradigm shift by bringing attention to the safety and educational concerns specific to African American youth. Deploying direct-action tactics and invoking the language of civil and human rights, the energy and zest of this generation of activists pushed the modern civil rights movement into a new chapter where young men and women became the voice of social unrest.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Atlanta's Black Voting Power

2. And None Shall Make Them Afraid

3. Destroying Jim Crow and Enforcing the Brown Decision

4. Atlanta's Student Movement and SNCC

5. Direct Action Tactics

6. The National Campaign for Civil and Human Rights

7. Atlanta's Response to the Civil Rights Act

8. SNCC, SCLC, and Selma

9. Poor People's Campaign and Opposing the Vietnam War

10. Honoring a King and his Legacy

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 16, 2017).

ISBN:

9781439659403

1439659400

OCLC:

972289887