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American Civil Rights Movement: a QuickStudy Reference Guide First Edition, New Edition

American Civil Rights Movement: a QuickStudy Reference Guide First Edition, New Edition
Author: Walter D. Greason
Price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1423250664
ISBN-13: 9781423250661
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Essential history, leaders, and events in the social, political, and legal fight for freedom in America. Dr. Walter D. Greason, author, professor, historian, economist, and urbanist offers the need-to-know accounts of the struggle for justice and equality for African Americans. In just six pages this succinct reference guide gives the reader a grand view of the struggle with details that inspire more reading including references to further focus on areas of interest. Great tool for students and teachers to keep this history alive and remembered, ensuring a better future for civil and human rights of all people. Today, Dr. Greason works with faculty, students, community leaders and politicians to engage in global conversations to motivate for action and make progress while preserving history and uplifting communities.
6 page reference guide includes:
  • Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
    • The Sanctity of Justice
    • Constitutional Amendments
    • Black Codes & Jim Crow Laws
  • Post-Reconstruction: Black Freedom Movement
    • Women’s Club Movement
    • Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856-1928) & the Tuskegee Movement
  • The Great Migration
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) & the NAACP
    • Organization of the NAACP
    • Du Bois’ Resignation & Self-Exile
  • Black Urban Life
    • Growth of Cities & Racial Segregation
    • Protests against Racial Discrimination
  • World War I
  • Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) & the UNIA
  • Black History, Folklore & the Harlem Renaissance
    • Black Art & a New Social Consciousness
    • Impact of the Harlem Renaissance
  • World War II & the Black Press
    • The Black Press
    • Exposing Military Discrimination
    • The “Double V” Campaign
  • Next Generation of Black Leaders
    • Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
    • Ella Baker (1903-1986)
    • Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949)
    • Ada Lawrence (1920-2014)
  • Civil Rights Movement
    • Brown v. Board of Education
    • Bus Boycott
    • SCLC
    • Martin Luther King Jr. & Nonviolent Direct Action
    • Civil Rights Legislation
    • Impact of the Civil Rights Era
  • Carrying the Struggle Forward into the 21st Century
    • Police Violence
    • Segregation in the Suburbs: Malls & Prisons
    • 21st Century Voices for Equal Justice
    • Black Lives Matter & Afrofuturism
    • White Americans & the Civil Rights Struggle