Public Image Private Shame: A Study of Black Civil Rights in the USA eBook - 1 year lease, 1st edition

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Public Image Private Shame: A Study of Black Civil Rights in the USA eBook - 1 year lease
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Public Image Private Shame will help students look, in depth, at the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s to mid 1970s. Importantly, this book provides exciting new material that encourages students to see that the modern movement belonged to a tradition of protest that first began on the shores of Africa and continues to this day.

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material that encourages students to see that the modern movement belonged to a tradition of protest that first began on the shores of Africa and continues to this day.

 

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Table of contents

Useful information
Acknowledgements
Foreword from civil rights activists and others
From the author

1 Racism in America
Emmett Till’s America
The roots of racism

2 Slavery and Resistance
Early Africa
The Middle Passage
Slave life in America
Slave resistance

3 The Road to Emancipation
Key causes of emancipation
Revolutionary republican ideals
The economic needs of the elite
Abolitionist pressure
The American civil war

4 Neo-Slavery
Reconstruction
Entrenchment
Neo-slavery
Black progress after reconstruction
The challenge of World War Two

5 The Modern Black Rights Movement
Grassroots change
The US system of government
Two approaches to activism

6 Brown v. Board of Education
Dismantling Jim Crow education
Alexander v. Holmes County

7 The Montgomery Bus Protest
'It’s my constitutional right!’
1955–56: The Montgomery bus protest

8 1957: Continuing to Challenge School Segregation
Racial diehards resist change
Integrating Central High

9 1958-60: Black Liberation
The tradition of black self-defence
Early black liberation leaders
Robert F Williams: Advocate for self-defence

10 1960-62: Student Defiance
A new generation of protest
Sit-ins
The Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
‘Freedom Rides'
James Meredith and the University of Mississippi

11 The Battle for Birmingham
Racism in Birmingham

12 1963-64: Pressing for Real Change
The Civil Rights Act
The Freedom Summer

13 Selma 1965: One Man, One Vote
The SNCC in Selma
King and the SCLC come to Selma

14 1965-67: The Emergence of Black Power
The seeds of discontent
The march against fear
Black power and cultural transformation
The Black Panthers

15 1968-70: Memphis and Beyond
The fight against poverty
King’s assassination

16 1970-2001: Politics and Protest
US presidents from 1970–2001

17 Black Rights in America Today
America’s first black president
The black experience in modern America
Reflection

Appendix: Timeline of Key Dates

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