Let freedom ring : a documentary history of the modern civil rights movement edited by Peter B. Levy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Peter B.

Standardized Title:

Documentary history of the modern civil rights movement.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--Sources.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Documentary history of the modern civil rights movement.

Place of Publication:

New York : Praeger, 1992.

Contents:

Anticipating the movement

Desegregating the schools

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The sit-ins and freedom rides

The fires of discord

Birmingham and the Great March

Mississippi : opening the closed society

Selma : the bridge to freedom

Black power

The civil rights movement and other social movements

White resistance

The struggle continues

Appendix : statistical profile of black America.

Notes:

Hardcover ed. published simultaneously under title: Documentary history of the modern civil rights movement.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0275934349 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

24219167