Binding: Paperback
Description: The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And yet despite a vague sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For many a singular moment frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial sums up much of what Americans and the world know about that remarkable decade of struggle. In The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction 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. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.
Title: The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Holt Thomas C. (James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Of American And African American History James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Of American And African American History University Of Chicago)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190605421
Pages: 176 Pages, 10 B/W Photos
Publication Date: 2/28/2023
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Civil Rights & Citizenship