| Physical Description |
xxv, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
Horace "Julian" Bond was a social justice activist, politician, and professor who is best known as one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). For over two decades, he taught a popular class at the University of Virginia on the history of the civil rights movement and this book is compiled from his original lecture notes. Through his lectures, Bond detailed the ground-shaking disruption the movement caused, its immense unpopularity at the time, and the bravery of activists, some very young, who chose to disturb order to pursue justice. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Pam Horowitz -- Introduction: what Julian Bond taught me / by Jeanne Theoharis -- Introduction to the course / by Julian Bond -- White Supremacy and the founding of the NAACP -- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- World War II -- President Truman and the road to Brown -- Brown v. Board of Education -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- The 1956 presidential election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act -- Little Rock, 1957 -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- The sit-ins and the founding of SNCC -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- The freedom rides -- Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961 -- Albany, Georgia, 1961 -- Mississippi voter registration -- Birmingham -- Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill -- The March on Washington -- The Civil Rights Act -- 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer -- Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Vietnam, Black Power, and the assassination of Martin Luther King -- Afterword: we are in need of shaking / by Vann R. Newkirk II. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-355) and index. |
| Subject |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- History.
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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| Alt Author |
Horowitz, Pamela, 1946- editor.
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Theoharis, Jeanne, editor.
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Lyon, Danny, illustrator.
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| Alternate Title |
Time to teach |
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