Book Description
Translation originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2020.
Author : Selma van de Perre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982164670
Translation originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2020.
Author : Sheyann Webb
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 1997-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817308989
This moving firsthand account puts the 1965 struggle for Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama, in very human terms.
Author : Jutta Bauer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9780958272087
A sheep evaluates what is truly important in life. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Author : Daniel S. Lucks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813145090
In Selma to Saigon Daniel S. Lucks explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Through detailed research and a powerful narrative, Lucks illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as lesser-known Americans in the movement who faced the threat of the military draft as well as racial discrimination and violence.
Author : Sarah B. Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0231547218
The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens—civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure—many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy—yet previous accounts have often overlooked its crucial role. In From Selma to Moscow, Sarah B. Snyder traces the influence of human rights activists and advances a new interpretation of U.S. foreign policy in the “long 1960s.” She shows how transnational connections and social movements spurred American activism that achieved legislation that curbed military and economic assistance to repressive governments, created institutions to monitor human rights around the world, and enshrined human rights in U.S. foreign policy making for years to come. Snyder analyzes how Americans responded to repression in the Soviet Union, racial discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, authoritarianism in South Korea, and coups in Greece and Chile. By highlighting the importance of nonstate and lower-level actors, Snyder shows how this activism established the networks and tactics critical to the institutionalization of human rights. A major work of international and transnational history, From Selma to Moscow reshapes our understanding of the role of human rights activism in transforming U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and highlights timely lessons for those seeking to promote a policy agenda resisted by the White House.
Author : J. L. Chestnut
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : African American lawyers
ISBN : 9780374114046
"Politics and power in a small American town"--Jacket subtitle.
Author : Robert A. Pratt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1421421593
Slow march toward freedom -- Seeds of protest -- Bloody Sunday -- My feets is tired, but my soul is rested -- A season of suffering
Author : Patrick D. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674057295
Between 1958 and 1970, a distinctive movement for racial justice emerged from unique circumstances in Milwaukee. A series of local leaders inspired growing numbers of people to participate in campaigns against employment and housing discrimination, segregated public schools, the membership of public officials in discriminatory organizations, welfare cuts, and police brutality. The Milwaukee movement culminated in the dramaticÑand sometimes violentÑ1967 open housing campaign. A white Catholic priest, James Groppi, led the NAACP Youth Council and Commandos in a militant struggle that lasted for 200 consecutive nights and provoked the ire of thousands of white residents. After working-class mobs attacked demonstrators, some called Milwaukee Òthe Selma of the North.Ó Others believed the housing campaign represented the last stand for a nonviolent, interracial, church-based movement. Patrick Jones tells a powerful and dramatic story that is important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence and armed self-defense, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism. Jones offers a valuable contribution to movement history in the urban North that also adds a vital piece to the national story.
Author : David J. Garrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1504011546
A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Beyond a mere narration of events, Garrow provides an in-depth look at the political strategy of King and of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He explains how King’s awareness of media coverage of the protests—especially reports of white violence against peaceful African American protestors—would elicit sympathy for the cause and lead to dramatic legislative change. Garrow’s analysis of these tactics and of the news reports surrounding these events provides a deeper understanding of how civil rights activists utilized a nonviolent approach to achieve success in the face of great opposition and ultimately effected monumental political change.
Author : Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0147512166
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history. Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive for young readers.