| The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Badger, Anthony J. (Editor), Ward, Brian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333640241 ISBN-13: 9780333640241 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Social Science | Sociology - General - Science | History |
| Dewey: 323 |
| Physical Information: 241 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leading scholars reassess the origins and trajectory of the American civil rights movement. Essays highlight the importance of black activism in the 1930s and 1940s and show how white liberals misunderstood the movement. Comparisons with Britain and South Africa reveal how movement leaders secured sympathetic responses at home and abroad and how nonviolence characterised the movement. The essays also challenge traditional concepts of 'race' and 'racial equality', consider the impact of the struggle on participants and trace black political thought since the 1960s. |