The civil rights movement: a documentary reader

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"Primary sources have become an essential component in the teaching of history to undergraduates. They engage students in the process of historical interpretation and analysis and help them understand that facts do not speak for themselves. Rather, students see how historians construct narratives that recreate the past. Most students assume that the pursuit of knowledge is a solitary endeavor; yet historians constantly interact with their peers, building upon previous research and arguing among…

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Full title :The civil rights movement : a documentary reader / edited by John A. Kirk.

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Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons, Inc./Blackwell
Place of Publication:Hoboken, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxvi, 329 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781119414261, 1119414261, 9781119583622, 1119583624, 1119583640, 9781119583646
oclc:on1129398865
LC Classification:E185.61
Dewey Decimal:323.1196/073

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1 Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- 1.1 New York Amsterdam Star-News, "Bus Boycott Ends in Victory," 1941 -- 1.2 A. Philip Randolph, "Call to Negro America to March on Washington for Jobs and Equal Participation in National Defense," 1941 -- 1.3 James Farmer Recalls the Congress of Racial Equality's Chicago Sit-In in 1942 -- 1.4 US Supreme Court, Smith v. Allwright, 1944

1.5 Annie L. McPheeters Interview on Grassroots Voter Registration in Atlanta in the 1930s and 1940s -- 1.6 Fifth Pan-African Congress, Declaration to the Colonial Workers, Farmers and Intellectuals, 1945 -- DECLARATION TO THE COLONIAL WORKERS, FARMERS AND INTELLECTUALS. -- 1.7 Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 -- 1.8 President's Committee on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights, 1947 -- 1.9 President Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9981, 1948 -- 1.10 Henry Lee Moon, Balance of Power: The Negro Vote, 1948

1.11 States' Rights Democratic Party, Platform of the States' Rights Democratic Party, 1948 -- 1.12 Congressman Jacob K. Javits, Press Release on Segregation and Dis…

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African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Sources. -- Civil … African Americans -- Textbooks. -- Civi… Civil rights movements Civil rights movements -- Sources Civil rights movements -- Sources. -- H… Civil rights movements -- Textbooks. --… History Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- Sou… Noirs américains -- Sources. -- Droits … Sources Textbooks United States