Memorial Hall Library

The Civil rights movement, a very short introduction, Thomas C. Holt

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Civil rights movement

bibliography

1340402922

Thomas C. Holt

Very short introductions

a very short introduction

"It may seem odd that a very short book should have incurred such a long list of people to whom I am endebted, but most of these debts were acquired long before this project was even conceived. Some are owed to my maternal grandmother Carrie for the stories she shared during idle moments on our back porch about the history of the place we inhabited and in other more emotionally charged moments when she silently modeled for a preadolescent boy how one might negotiate its hostile terrain with dignity. Others are owed to my father, whose stories about how our family's history evolved in that hostile place and about the different worlds he had seen far beyond its confining and sometimes confounding boundaries somehow enabled me to think differently about my own place in the world. Growing up in a hostile world can make one self-destructive, but somehow these stories delegitimized its rule and suggested that building a very different world was possible"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: Carrie's Rebellion -- Before Montgomery -- Communities organizing for change: New South cities 29 3. Communities organizing for change: The new "Old South" 51 4. Organizing in the "American Congo": Mississippi's Freedom Summer and its aftermath -- Freedom movements in the North 93 6. Legacies: "Freedom is a constant struggle"