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- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
- Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century
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- United States--History--1953-1961
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964
- United States--History--1961-1969
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Title Statement | The civil rights movement: a very short introduction / Thomas C. Holt. |
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Series | Very short introductions |
Author | Holt, Thomas C.(Thomas Cleveland), 1942- |
Additional Contributors | Holt, Thomas C.(Thomas Cleveland),1942- |
Publication | New York: Oxford University Press,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | xxiii, 150 pages |
ISBN | 9780190605421 (paperback) |
Other Number | pr06943725 |
General Notes | "Published in hardcover as The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (2021)." |
Contents | Introduction: Carrie's Rebellion --1. Before Montgomery --2. Communities organizing for change: New South cities --3. Communities organizing for change : The new "Old South" --4. Organizing in the "American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and its aftermath --5. Freedom movements in the North --6. Legacies: "Freedom is a constant struggle." |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-134) and index. |
Summary | "It may seem odd that a very short book should have incurred such a long list of people to whom I am endebted, but most of these debts were acquired long before this project was even conceived. Some are owed to my maternal grandmother Carrie for the stories she shared during idle moments on our back porch about the history of the place we inhabited and in other more emotionally charged moments when she silently modeled for a preadolescent boy how one might negotiate its hostile terrain with dignity. Others are owed to my father, whose stories about how our family's history evolved in that hostile place and about the different worlds he had seen far beyond its confining and sometimes confounding boundaries somehow enabled me to think differently about my own place in the world. Growing up in a hostile world can make one self-destructive, but somehow these stories delegitimized its rule and suggested that building a very different world was possible"-- |
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By Topic | African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century |
African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975 | |
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964 | |
Civil rights movements--History--20th century--United States | |
By Location | Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century |
United States--History--1953-1961 | |
United States--History--1961-1969 | |
United States--Race relations--History--20th century |