My mind set on freedom : a history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968

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Label

My mind set on freedom : a history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968

Title remainder

a history of the civil rights movement, 1954-1968

Statement of responsibility

John A. Salmond

Creator

• Salmond, John A

Subject

• Bürgerrechtsbewegung
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Geschichte 1954-1968
• History
• United States -- Race relations
• African Americans -- Civil rights

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

This is the story of the drive to free the American South from the shackles of legally sanctioned racial segregation. To chart the course of the American civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 in fewer than 200 pages - and do it justice - is a remarkable accomplishment. This is what John Salmond has done, in a lively and compact narrative. Mr. Salmond sets the scene by looking at the first stirrings of black unrest prompted by New Deal policies in the 1930s and by the liberating experiences of blacks abroad and at home during World War II. He notes how labor activism; federal attempts at racial justice, and unheralded private initiatives after the war marked the beginnings of change in the South. Meanwhile the NAACP continued a sophisticated legal struggle to secure black equality through the courts. When the Supreme Court overturned school segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the issue was joined for the South and the nation. Mr. Salmond traces the Southern opposition to change as it confronted a growing black militancy led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. Dramatic, often violent events captured the nation's attention. Ultimately the Kennedy administration responded to growing pressures. When Lyndon Johnson secured the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, it was clear the movement had triumphed - yet it was also starting to unravel. In taking the story to the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Mr. Salmond explains the collapse of the civil rights movement but shows how it transformed the American South

Member of

• American ways series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973/.0496073

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.61

LC item number

.S28 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American ways series