Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the southern civil rights movement
Title:
Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the southern civil rights movement
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ISBN:
9780807033203
Physical Description:
xxv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 -- Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 -- Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King.
Summary:
"Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter"-- Provided by publisher.
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