We shall overcome : the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950's and 1960's / edited with a preface by David J. Garrow.

Other author Garrow, David J., 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoBrooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1989.
Description3 volumes (xiv, 1,201 pages) ; 24 cm.
Subjects
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Southern States.
Civil rights movements--United States. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
United States--Race relations.
Southern States--Race relations.

SeriesMartin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement ; v. 4-6
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement ; v. 4-6. ^A253929
Contents Volume 1: Editor's Preface -- Chapter 1: DeFacto Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement / Norman C. Amaker -- Chapter 2: The Southern Freedom Movement in Perspective / Anne Braden -- Chapter 3: The Civil Rights Movement: momentum and Organization / Kenneth B. Clark -- Chapter 4: Black Belt, Alabama /Jerry DeMuth -- Chapter 5: Negro Demonstrations and the Law: Danville as a Test Case / James W. Ely -- Chapter 6: The Southern Christian leadership Conference and the Second Reconstruction, 1957-1973 / Adam Fairclough -- Chapter 7: The Voter-Registration Drive in Selma, Alabama / John R. Fry -- Chapter 8: Black Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Years / David J. Garrow -- Chapter 9: The Right to be Served: Oklahoma City's Lunch Counter Sit ins 1958-1964 -- Chapter 10: Black radicalization and the Funding of Civil Rights, 1957-1970 -- Chapter 11: Albany, Georgia / Vincent Harding and Staughton Lynd -- Chapter 12: Where Have All the Lovers Gone? / Vincent Harding -- Chapter 14: The Religion of Black Power / Vincent Harding.
Contents Volume 2: The law and civil rights: the Justice Department in the South / Thelton Henderson -- Five battles of Selma / Warren Hinckle and David Welch -- The provocation of violence: a civil rights tactic? / Jan Howard -- Five long hot summers and how they grew / Howard Hubbard -- Recent trends in the civil rights movement / Tom Kahn and August Meier -- Organization, rationality, and spontaneity in the civil rights movement / Lewis M. Killian -- James L. Bevel: the strategist of the 1960s civil rights movement / Randall L. Kryn -- The movement, Negro challenge to the myth / James H. Law -- Sixty-five days in Memphis: a study of culture, symbols, and the press -- The angry children of Malcolm X /Julius Lester -- The Negro revolt against 'The Negro Leaders' / Louis E. Lomax -- Tactical innovation and the pace of insurgency / Doug McAdam -- The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and the FBI: a case study in urban surveillance / Gerald D. McKnight -- A harvest of hate: The FBI's war against Black youth: domestic intelligence in Memphis, Tennessee / Gerald D. McKnight -- Black enfranchisement in Mississippi: Federal enforcement and Black protest in the 1960s / Neil R. McMillen -- The protest movement and the law / Burke Marshall -- The successful sit-ins in a border city: a study in social causation / August Meier -- The revolution against the NAACP / August Meier -- New currents in the Civil Rights Movement / August Meier -- Negro protest movements and organizations / August Meier -- Dynamics of crisis and unity in the Southern movement / August Meier -- Case study in nonviolent direct action / August Meier, Thomas S. Plaut and Curtis Smothers -- The dilemmas of Negro protest strategy / August Meier -- The urban ghetto and Black politics / August Meier.
Contents Volume 3: The boycott movement against Jim Crow streetcars in the South / August Meier -- The origins of nonviolent direct action in Afro-American protest: a note on historical discontinuities / August Meier -- Black Southern Student Sit-in Movement: an analysis of internal organization / Aldon Morris -- Inside the sit-ins and Freedom Rides / Diane Nash -- A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Ewell Reagin -- The Lawd' descends and is crucified: Martin Luther King, Jr. in Albany, Georgia / John A. Ricks -- From protest to politics: the future of the civil rights movement / Bayard Rustin -- 'Black power' and coalition politics / Bayard Rustin -- The Tallahassee Bus Protest / Charles U. Smith and Lewis M. Killian -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: rise and fall of a redemptive organization / Emily Stoper -- A preliminary report on the status of the Negro in Dallas County, Alabama / Harris Wofford -- Gandhi the civil rights lawyer -- The double job in civil rights / Howard Zinn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare volumes gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Issued in other formOnline version: We shall overcome. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub., 1989
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 89009962
ISBN0926019023 (set ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780926019027 (set ; alk. paper)

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