This text covers the history of the civil rights movement beginning in the crucial years of WWII. The author focuses on the development of black electoral politics from southern disfranchisement to the election of big city mayors. He ties together the broader effort to achieve the legal right to equality with his specific aims of achieving actual political equality. He has successfully linked the national struggle for civil and political rights with grassroots efforts where much of the inspiration and resources for the movement were derived. It provides an opportunity to explain the powerful institutions of government - presidents, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the actions of ordinary citizens in the local communities.

Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics In America Since 1941

History

Lawson, Steven F.

Americas

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Critical Episodes in American Politics)

Mcgraw-Hill College

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Contemporary American History Series)

Examines the process by which Southern blacks gained the right to vote, concentrating on the roles played by major civil-rights organizations from World War II to the Johnson administration

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Lawson: in Pursuit of Power (Cloth) (Contemporary American history series) [Mar 13, 1985] LAWSON, SF ...

In pursuit of power: Southern Blacks and electoral politics, 1965-1982 (Contemporary American history series)

Columbia University Press

Following a hard-fought war to preserve freedom and combat racial tyranny, Harry S Truman faced a nation of racial turmoil at home where many Americans did not enjoy the basic rights they had fought to secure. Lynchings, violent racial attacks, and widespread discrimination undermined the country’s democratic ideals and prompted Truman to appoint a committee on civil rights. The committee’s report, To Secure These Rights, is one of the most important documents in the history of the modern civil rights movement; its findings showed a nation torn by racial injustice and its recommendations set the agenda for the ongoing struggle for racial equality. This volume contains the full text of the 1947 report, plus an insightful introduction by Steven F. Lawson that chronicles early civil rights efforts and details the political and social climate of the postwar era. Also included are nine original images from the report, questions for consideration, an annotated chronology, and suggestions for further reading.

To Secure These Rights: The Report of President Harry S Truman's Committee on Civil Rights

Bedford/St.Martin's

Exploring American Histories offers an entirely new approach to teaching the U.S. survey that puts investigating sources and thinking about the many stories of American history right at the center of your course. The distinctive format integrates primary documents and a brief narrative into one cost-effective and easy-to-use volume. Exploring American Histories features Bedford/St. Martin's new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your fingertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It's the best content joined up with the best technology. Available in combined and split volumes and in a number of affordable print and digital formats.

Exploring American Histories, Combined Volume: A Brief Survey with Sources

Hewitt, Nancy A.

Exploring American Histories offers an entirely new approach to teaching the U.S. survey that puts investigating sources and thinking about the many stories of American history right at the center of your course. The distinctive format integrates primary documents and a brief narrative into one cost-effective and easy-to-use volume. Exploring American Histories features Bedford/St. Martin’s new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your fingertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It’s the best content joined up with the best technology. Available in combined and split volumes and in a number of affordable print and digital formats.

Exploring American Histories, Volume 1: A Brief Survey with Sources

Exploring American Histories offers an entirely new approach to teaching the U.S. survey that puts investigating sources and thinking about the many stories of American history right at the center of your course. The distinctive format integrates primary documents and a brief narrative into one cost-effective and easy-to-use volume. Exploring American Histories features Bedford/St. Martin’s new digital history tools, including LearningCurve, an adaptive quizzing engine that garners over a 90% student satisfaction rate, and LaunchPad, the all new interactive e-book and course space that puts high quality easy-to-use assessment at your figertips. Easy to integrate into your campus LMS, and featuring video, additional primary sources, a wealth of adaptive and summative quizzing, and more, LaunchPad cements student understanding of the text while helping them make progress toward learning outcomes. It’s the best content joined up with the best technology. Available in combined and split volumes and in a number of affordable print and digital formats.

Exploring American Histories, Volume 2: A Brief Survey with Sources

Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Steven Lawson focuses on the "Second Reconstruction"―the struggle of blacks to gain political power in the South through the ballot-which both whites and black perceived to be a key element in the civil rights process. Examining the struggle of civil rights groups to enfranchise Negroes, Lawson also analyzes the responses of federal and local officials to those efforts. He describes the various techniques―from the white primary, the poll tax, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures through sheer intimidation―that were developed by white southerners to perpetuate disfranchisement and the sundry methods used by blacks and their white allies to challenge them.

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969

Lexington Books

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Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics In America Since 1941

Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Critical Episodes in American Politics)

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Contemporary American History Series)

In pursuit of power: Southern Blacks and electoral politics, 1965-1982 (Contemporary American history series)

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Contemporary American History Series)

To Secure These Rights: The Report of President Harry S Truman's Committee on Civil Rights

Exploring American Histories, Combined Volume: A Brief Survey with Sources

Exploring American Histories, Volume 1: A Brief Survey with Sources

Exploring American Histories, Volume 2: A Brief Survey with Sources

Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969