Civil rights (1954-2015) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)

Defining Documents in American History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Civil rights.

Civil rights--United States--History--21st century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

Defining Documents in American History: Civil Rights offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events that shaped civil rights struggles in American history.

Contents:

Cover; Defining Documents in American History: Civil Rights (1954-2015); Table of Contents; Publisher's Note; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; African American Civil Rights; Women and Equality; Latino Civil Rights; The Gay Rights Movement; Native American Rights; Appendixes; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) plus Enforcement Decree for Same (1955); Women's Political Council Documents; Address to the Montgomery Improvement Association; Eisenhower Address on Little Rock; Letter from Magnolia County Jail; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Constitution

"Letter from Birmingham Jail"Account of Participation in Sit-ins; Presidential Address on Civil Rights; Address to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; "I Have a Dream" Speech; Malcolm X on the Black Revolution; President Johnson's Remarks on Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention; "Our God is Marching On"; Speech before Congress on Voting Rights; "In Defense of Self-Defense"; Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in the Bakke Case; Griswold v. Connecticut

National Organization for Women (NOW) Founding StatementAn Act Ending Sex Discrimination in Government Employment; Position Paper Regarding the Equal Rights Amendment(ERA); Title IX; Roe v. Wade; Planned Parenthood v. Casey; Women in the Service Implementation Plan; Vice President Joseph Biden on Combating Violence against Women; Hernandez v. Texas; "Prayer of the Farm Workers' Struggle"; Proposals Made by High School Students of East Los Angeles; Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974; Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Letter of Protest regarding the Treatment of Undocumented ImmigrantsExecutive Actions on Immigration, 2014; Stonewall Riot Leaflet; Statements by the American Psychological Association regarding Homosexuality; ACT UP Founding Document and Speech; Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Lawrence v. Texas; Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act; United States v. Windsor; Excerpts from Obergefell v. Hodges; Indian Civil Rights Act; "Trail of Broken Treaties" Twenty-Point Position Paper; American Indian Movement-National Operational Goal

President Gerald Ford's Statement on Signing the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975American Indian Religious Freedom Act; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; Chronological List; Web Resources; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781619258570

1619258579

OCLC:

938618340