The civil rights movement in America : from Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council / Peter B. Levy, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Peter B.

Series:

Movements of the American mosaic.

Movements of the American mosaic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--Encyclopedias.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Civil rights workers.

United States--Race relations--Encyclopedias.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; A; Abernathy, Ralph David; Affirmative Action; Albany, Georgia Movement; Ali, Muhammad; Anderson, William G.; B; Baker, Ella; Baldwin, James; Baraka, Amiri; Bates, Daisy; Belafonte, Harry; Bethune, Mary McLeod; Bevel, James; Birmingham Campaign; Black Arts Movement; Black Nationalism; Black Panther Party; Black Power; Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics; Bloody Sunday; Bombingham; Brown, Elaine; Brown, H. Rap; Brown v. Board of Education; Bunche, Ralph; Busing; C; Carmichael, Stokely; Chicago Campaign; Chisholm, Shirley

Civil Rights Act of 1960Civil Rights Act of 1964; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Clark, Septima; Cleaver, Eldridge; Cleaver, Kathleen Neal; COINTELPRO; Cold War and Civil Rights; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; D; Davis, Angela; Deacons for Defense and Justice; Du Bois, W. E. B.; E; Evers, Medgar; F; Farrakhan, Louis; Faubus, Orval Eugene; Forman, James; Freedom Rides; Freedom Schools; G; Garvey, Marcus; Gray, Fred; H; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Hampton, Fred; Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU); Height, Dorothy; Houston, Charles Hamilton; J; Jackson, Jesse

Jim CrowJohnson, Lyndon B.; K; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Robert F.; Kerner Commission Report; King, Coretta Scott; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; L; Lafayette, Bernard; Last Poets; Lawson, James; League of Revolutionary Black Workers; Levison, Stanley; Lewis, John; Lewis, Rufus; Little Rock Nine; Long Hot Summer Riots, 1965-1967; Lorraine Motel; Los Angeles Riot of 1965; Lowndes County Freedom Organization; M; Malcolm X; March on Washington; Marshall, Thurgood; Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike; Meredith, James; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Freedom Summer

Montgomery Bus BoycottMoses, Robert; Motley, Constance Baker; MOVE Bombing; N; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Nash, Diane; Nation of Islam; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Newton, Huey P.; Nixon, E. D.; O; Operation Breadbasket; Orangeburg Massacre of 1968; Organization of Afro-American Unity; P; Parks, Rosa; Peck, James; Poor People's Campaign; Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.; R; Radio Free Dixie (1962); Randolph, A. Philip; Ray, James Earl; Reeb, James; Revolutionary Action Movement; Richardson, Gloria; Robeson, Paul; Robinson, Jackie; Robinson, Jo Ann

Rustin, BayardS; Seale, Bobby; Selma March; Sharpton, Al; Shuttlesworth, Fred; Sit-In Movement; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Students for a Democratic Society; T; Till, Emmett; V; Voter Education Project; Voting Rights Act of 1965; W; Walker, Wyatt; War on Poverty; Wells-Barnett, Ida B.; White Citizens' Council; Wilkins, Roy; Williams, Hosea; Williams, Robert F.; Women's Political Council of Montgomery; Primary Documents; From President's Committee on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights (1947)

FBI Investigation of Malcolm X (1953-1964)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400626739

9798216061212

9781786845375

1786845377

OCLC:

906804350