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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the 2011 Edition -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 Coming to Terms with Cold War Civil Rights -- CHAPTER 2 Telling Stories about Race and Democracy -- CHAPTER 3 Fighting the Cold War with Civil Rights Reform -- CHAPTER 4 Holding the Line in Little Rock -- CHAPTER 5 Losing Control in Camelot -- CHAPTER 6 Shifting the Focus of America's Image Abroad -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

"With an African American in the White House, there is no better time for assessing the progress the United States has made in protecting the rights of all its citizens. The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans offers such an assessment, with an in-depth look at the Obama administrations proposed initiatives as they relate to the African American community and a survey of civil rights issues that need to be reexamined in light of Obamas election. The Cultural Rights Movement is a well-researched, powerfully written analysis of why a substantial number of blacks have yet to get their piece of the American dream. Coverage includes discriminatory lending practices; unfair Congressional redistricting; disparities in physician care and health outcomes; the low number of black students, faculty members and coaches in mainstream universities; the phenomenal high rate of blacks being arrested, convicted and incarcerated; the continual growth of black underemployment and poverty; and the near-total neglect of the reparations issue." -- from publisher's website

"Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 - a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this 'passive nullification' consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.

The history of the civil rights movement in America is filled with stories of challenges and courage. Readers discover the people and events that shaped the fight for equal rights for all Americans-regardless of their race. Informative text, sidebars, and fact boxes introduce readers to people like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The facts readers learn are made more accessible through historical photographs and several hands-on art projects. Readers learn to make their own civil rights posters and peace beads, along with other projects inspired by this time period

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Coming of Freedom -- CHAPTER 2 Reconstruction and the Birth of a New Kind of Lawyer -- CHAPTER 3 The Education of the New Lawyers -- CHAPTER 4 Law Practice in Reconstruction -- CHAPTER 5 The End of Reconstruction: Purge, Exodus, and Demise -- CHAPTER 6 New Lawyers -- CHAPTER 7 Law Practice and Politics in the Gilded Age -- CHAPTER 8 A Last Stand -- CHAPTER 9 From the Great Migration to the Great Depression -- CHAPTER 10 All-White Juries and the Continuing Struggle for Voting Rights -- CHAPTER 11 The 1940s and the Civil Rights Era -- CHAPTER 12 The Modern Civil Rights Era -- CHAPTER 13 A New Generation -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 -- APPENDIX B: Alphabetical List -- APPENDIX C: Read Law -- APPENDIX D: Law School Attended -- APPENDIX E: White Lawyers and Black Lawyers in Southern States -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Examines three periods of policy development in civil rights: (1) national adoption of nondiscrimination policy, 1964-1968; (2) the federal shift to minority preference policies, 1969-1975; & (3) the spread of minority set-aside policies from federal to state & local governments since 1977. Positive policy consequences of nondiscrimination include destroying segregation in the South, eliminating racial disfranchisement, & banning racial bias in jobs, unions, & education. Positive consequences of affirmative-action preferences include speeding the tripling of the black middle class since 1964. Negative consequences include a widening gap in public opinion, where by 1990 the majority of whites associated affirmative action with racial unfairness. AA