Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Children of Fire : A History of African Americans.
The Civil Rights Movement. A Very Short Introduction
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- Nombre de pages150
- FormatPoche
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.145 kg
- Dimensions11,0 cm × 17,5 cm × 1,0 cm
- ISBN978-0-19-060542-1
- EAN9780190605421
- Date de parution01/02/2023
- CollectionVery short introductions
- ÉditeurOxford University Press
Résumé
The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, it prefigured the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it.
His analysis of the critical moments—Freedom Summer, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Greensboro sit-ins—conveys the sense of a social movement that shaped its participants even as they shaped it.
His analysis of the critical moments—Freedom Summer, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Greensboro sit-ins—conveys the sense of a social movement that shaped its participants even as they shaped it.
