After the dream : black and white southerners since 1965 /

Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous...

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Tác giả chính: Minchin, Timothy J.
Tác giả khác: Salmond, John A.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ©2011.
Loạt:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcgd9
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • Historic progress : public accommodations and voting rights in the Johnson years
  • "Token beginnings" : the battle to desegregate southern schools and workplaces, 1965-1968
  • A fragmented crusade? : the civil rights struggle in the aftermath of the King assassination, 1968-1970
  • Defiance and compliance : the breakdown of freedom of choice in the south's schools
  • The busing years : school desegregation in the wake of Swann
  • Home has changed : southern race relations in the early 1970s
  • Paving the way for full participation : civil rights in the Ford years
  • Mixed outcomes : civil rights in the Carter years
  • "No substantial progress" : blacks, the economy, and racial polarization in the late 1970s
  • The Reagan counterrevolution
  • From Bush to Bush : the complexities of civil rights
  • The aftermath : from history to memory
  • Poverty and progress : four decades of change
  • Postscript.