Courage to Dissent
Title | Courage to Dissent PDF eBook |
Author | Tomiko Brown-Nagin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 603 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199932018 |
Offers a sweeping history of the civil rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, arguing the motivations of the movement were much more complicated than simply a desire for integration.
Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement: 1944-1968
Title | Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement: 1944-1968 PDF eBook |
Author | Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, PhD |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467124982 |
Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive group of black business, civic, and religious leaders from Atlanta, Georgia, challenged the status quo by employing a method of incremental gradualism to improve the social and political conditions existent within the city. By the mid-20th century, a younger generation of activists emerged, seeking a more direct and radical approach towards exercising their rights as full citizens. A culmination of the death of Emmett Till and the Brown decision fostered this paradigm shift by bringing attention to the safety and educational concerns specific to African American youth. Deploying direct-action tactics and invoking the language of civil and human rights, the energy and zest of this generation of activists pushed the modern civil rights movement into a new chapter where young men and women became the voice of social unrest.
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
Title | Child of the Civil Rights Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Young Shelton |
Publisher | Dragonfly Books |
Total Pages | 49 |
Release | 2013-07-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0385376065 |
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.
Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations
Title | Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations PDF eBook |
Author | David Andrew Harmon |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780815324379 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Politics, Civil Rights, and Law in Black Atlanta, 1870-1970
Title | Politics, Civil Rights, and Law in Black Atlanta, 1870-1970 PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Mason |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780752409856 |
Extraordinary People of the Civil Rights Movement
Title | Extraordinary People of the Civil Rights Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Jackson Hardy |
Publisher | Children's Press(CT) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780516298474 |
A look at the lives of some courageous Americans who worked hard for civil rights in America.
Beyond Atlanta
Title | Beyond Atlanta PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. N. Tuck |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780820325286 |
This text draws on interviews with almost 200 people, both black and white, who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom movement in Georgia. Beginning before and continuing after the years of direct action protest in the 1960s, the book makes clearthe exhorbitant cost of racial oppression.