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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS -- A CONFLICTED PAST -- AFTER THE WAR -- ANOTHER DARK AGE -- BEGINNINGS OF CHANGE -- FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS -- HEROES AND LEADERS -- ACTIVISM -- VICTORIES -- LOSSES -- RISING POWER -- MODERN RESULTS -- DID IT SUCCEED? -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- WEBSITES -- Back Cover

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Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- What Is an Activist? -- Sojourner Truth Feminist and Abolitionist -- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conductor -- Mary Seacole The War Nurse -- Frederick Douglass Inspirational Speaker -- Marcus Garvey Back-to-Africa Movement -- Rosa Parks Mother of the Civil Rights Movement -- Malcolm X Black Nationalist -- Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Hero -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Antiapartheid Activist -- Oprah Winfrey Modern Campaigner -- Other Activists -- Timeline -- Legacy -- Glossary -- Index

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most important political movements of the 20th century.

The calling out of racism and racial injustice has become undeniably prevalent in the United States, but this wasn't always the case. During the civil rights movement, many black activists paved the way, advocating for social and legal action through means including sit-ins, protests, and marches. Ideologies and approaches differed at times, but what bonded these pioneers together was their determination for African Americans to be seen and recognized as humans and equals in the United States. Readers will discover how The New York Times covered such figures as Daisy Bates, the Freedom Riders, and Malcolm X as they fought for equal rights. Features such as media literacy terms and questions will enhance readers' connection to the story of civil rights.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Fighting For Equal Rights -- A History of Slavery -- The Abolistionist Movement -- A War Breaks Out -- The NAACP Movement -- Strong Leadership -- The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- The Little Rock Nine -- I have a dream -- Violence Against African Americans -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- The Fight's Not Over -- Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement -- Glossary -- Index, Websites -- Back Cover

A review essay on books by (1) John D. Skrentny, The Ironies of Affirmative Action (IL: U Chicago Press, 1996); & (2) Desmond King, Separate and Unequal (England: Oxford U Press, 1995). These works focus on African American civil rights in the context of employment policy outside & inside the federal government. Both are described as interdisciplinary, informative works that present a more complete picture of affirmative action than previous studies. Skrentny points out the contradictions of the aims of government policies, assesses the color blindness of US society, & documents resistance to affirmative action. Institutional structures are discussed, & an effort is made to link cultural factors to political decisions. King gives a history of federal employment of blacks & shows how government hiring practices actually encouraged segregation. Discrimination in federal prisons, employment, & housing is compared, & a history of segregation, particularly in the military, is presented. Both works are criticized for not justifying or explaining which topics were covered or why, facing the reader with the dilemma of deciding whether the selections are representative. Skrentny's work also lacks any kind of quantitative analysis. Follow-up research on affirmative action is called for. T. Arnold

This issue of the New York Times includes articles detailing the March on Washington, foreign affairs during the early 1960s, and other stories surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

Catholic teaching must be the basis of any Catholic commitment to civil rights. The right to life is the first and utmost right, and, consequently, respect for freedom and personal responsibility play an important role in society. In fact, when the freedom and the dignity of a person are violated in any way, the entire human family is devalued.Its imperative that Christians respect civil rights, demostrated through their actions to establish a lasting national and international peace. Cardinal Bernardin underlines that peace engendered by arms races proves to be a illusion. Security at the expense of another country's insecurity is unacceptable. Moreover, security is not a reality for the world if people still suffer from hunger, children die every minute, exorbitant military expenditures are continually planned, and racism, segregation, poverty, hopelessness and despair are still so prevalent. In light of this, Joseph Bernardin invites all Christians to act upon their convictions as people of faith. Abortion, he asserts, must not be included among civic rights, but rather the right to life must be considered as the first and foremost among fundamental human rights.Among other civil right violations, apartheid has not yet been eliminated in South Africa. In countless nations violent civic wars have diminished human dignity, providing examples of social injustice. Immigration has been charged with creating problems; however, immigrating people move from one country to another in search of a better life and most times find themselves, once again, in poverty. When nations, in a desperate attempt to solve immigration problems, try to build a protective wall around their borders to keep other people out, they forget we are all members of a single human family in which every individual's rights must he respected.