The Civil Rights Movement

List of Acronyms.

Chronology.

Part I: Sowing Seeds.

1. Foundations.

Introduction.

Article: Southern Reformers, the New Deal, and the Movement's Foundation. (Patricia Sullivan).

Document A: Street Car Petition, Jacksonville, Florida, 1901.

Document B: NAACP School Desegregation Petition, 1955.

Further Reading.

2. Labor and Civil Rights.

Introduction.

Article: Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II. (Bruce Nelson).

Document A : Transcription of Tape Documentary on Natchez Laundry Workers Strike, October 17, 1965.

Document B: Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner, 1964.

Further Reading.

Part II: Defiance.

3. White Resistance.

Introduction.

Article: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964. (Thomas J. Sugrue).

Document A:Untitled Little Rock Poem, ca. 1957.

Document B: Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Broadside, ca 1960s.

Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. "Up North, Down South," cartoons, 1963.

Further Reading.

4. Anti-Communism, Anti-Civil Rights.

Introduction.

Article: Race and Red-Baiting. (Adam Fairclough).

Document A: Defender's News and View's Aug-Sept 1959.

Letter to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, 1960.

Further Reading.

Part III: Participants.

5. Liberals and Moderates.

Introduction.

Article: "South of the South?": Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. (Raymond A. Mohl).

Documents:.

Document A: The Conversion of Peggy Terry, ca 1950s.

Document B: "One can not be a Christian and a Segregationist, Too," 1979.

Further Reading.

6. Women in the Civil Rights Movement.

Introduction.

Article: Passing the Torch: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement: LaVerne Gyant.

Document A: Fannie Lou Hamer, "The Special Plight and Role of Black Women," 1971.

Document B: Septima Poinsette Clark Memoir, 1979, 1984.

Clarice T. Campbell Correspondence, summer 1956.

Further Reading.

Part IV: Local-National Relationships.

7. The NAACP.

Introduction.

Article: The NAACP in North Carolina during the Age of Segregation. (Raymond Gavins).

Document A:NAACP v. Button, 1963.

Document B: Jackson, Mississippi, Boycott Campaign, 1962-63.

Further Reading.

8. Grassroots.

Introduction.

Article: Baseball's Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961-1964. (Jack E. Davis).

Document A: Siege at Savannah, 1964.

Document B: People in Motion: The Story of the Birmingham Movement, 1966.

Further Reading.

Part V: Empowerment.

9. Black Power and Culture.

Introduction.

Article: New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. (William L. Van DeBurg).

Document A:Robert Williams, Negroes With Guns, 1962.

Document B: Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, "The Search for New Forms," 1967.

Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. cartoon, 1968.

Further Reading.

10. Political Power.

Introduction.

Article: The Civil Rights Movement as Urban Reform: Atlanta's Black Neighborhoods and a New "Progessivism": Ronald H. Bayor.

Document A: Voter Registration Testimonies, ca 1960s.

Document B: Petition, August 29, 1965.

Document C: Shaw v. Reno, 1993.

Part VI: The Continuing Saga.

11. Environmental Injustice.

Introduction.

Article: From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement. (Eileen Maura McGurty).

Document A: Slum Clearance, Community Style, ca 1940s.

Document B: Letter Addressing Lead Poisoning, 1957.

Further Reading.

12. Affirmative Action.

Introduction.

Article: Race, History, and Policy, African Americans and Civil Rights Since 1964. (Hugh Davis Graham).

Document A: The Kerner Report, Employment Report, Introduction, 1968.

Document B: Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973).

Further Reading.

Index.