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Civil Rights Movement (U.S.)
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAfrican-American Self-Defense: Guns and the Freedom Struggle  Miah, Malik Article 2015 A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr. African-American Self-Defense Miah, Malik Article 2015 A review of Charles E. Cobb Jr.'s book, "This Non-violent Stuff'll Get You Killed" on the role of guns in the US civil rights movement of the 1960s. American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Boggs, Grace Lee Film/Video 2014 A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labo... Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War: Against The Current vol. 85 Miah, Malik Article 2000 Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march p... Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers: Memories of Mississippi 1964-65 Dann, Jim Book 2013 With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, author Jim Dann brings the historic period, the June 1964 civil rights struggle to register as man... The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement: For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Cone, Paul Article 2010 The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered t... Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Nembhard, Jessica Gordon Book 2014 In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South: What's Not in The Great Debaters Cane, Don; Zorn, Jacob Article 2008 The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the ... Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two Wilde, Alan Article 2014 During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of ... The Dialectics of Community Control Aronowitz, Stanley Article 1970 The movement for community control will fall short often, unless it becomes a broader struggle for popular, democratic control of all public institutions and the economy. Failure To Quit Zinn, Howard Article 1990 Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two: How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration Alexander, Don Article 2004 There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and ... For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One: Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis Coleman, Diana Article 2012 We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the sa... Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Civil Rights Movement in the Rural South Reconsidered Miller, Mike Article 2013 Is it possible to both win substantial benefits for people who are on the lower rungs of the socio-economic status ladder while at the same time building forms of democratic people power that can cont... Freedom Now Vision Unfinished : Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans" Miah, Malik Article 2014 Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled. Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview Oppenheimer, Marty Article 2015 The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from ... Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview Oppenheimer, Marty Article 2014 Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the Unit... Freedom Summer Remembered: Interview with Walter Kaufman Finkel, David; Kaufman, Walter Article 2014 Walter Kaufman is a retired attorney, psychotherapist and former community college teacher living in Berkeley, California. He was a participant in the 1964 Freedom Summer, working in Philadelphia, Mis... Freedom Summer Remembered : Interview with Walter Kaufmann Finkel, David Article 2014 Finkel interviews retired community college teacher Walter Kaufmann about his experiences in the Freedom Summer project and teaching in the Freedom Schools. The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department Seidman, Derek Article 2017 SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer w... If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength Malik, Kenan Unclassified 2018 Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change. The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven Black, Simon Article 2016 Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociologic... The Influence of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement in Canada Calliste, Agnes Article 1995 Published in Race, Gender and Class, 2.3 (Spring 1995) Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One): Police Terror and Black Oppression Coleman, Diana Unclassified 2015 Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of ... Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two): Police Terror and Black Oppression Coleman, Diana Article 2015 Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to poli... A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world. Montgomery Bus Boycott Article 1955 A successful year-long protest against the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The New Student Left: An Anthology Cohen, Mitchell; Hale, Dennis Book 1966 A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses. No Outside Saviors!: Against The Current vol. 136 Feeley, Dianne; Finkel, David Article 2008 Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years. Organizing that Changed Mississippi: Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" Chandler, Bill Article 2014 A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015: Elections Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about ch... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016: Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018: Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental soc... Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice Zinn, Howard Book 1990 Essays looking at American political ideology. The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States Cooney, Robert; Michalowski, Helen Book A pictorial encyclopedia of the struggles of the U.S. women and men working for peace and justice through nonviolent action. Sections are included on the roots of American nonviolence, the women's rig... Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans: Against The Current vol. 120 Miah, Malik Article 2006 It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class... Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65: Interview with Claudia Morcom Feeley, Diane; Finkel, David Article 2014 Dianne Feeley and David Finkel from the ATC editorial board spoke with Judge Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, ... Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65: Interview with Claudia Morcom Feeley, Dianne; Finkel, David Article 2014 Feeley and Finkel interview Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National La... Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence Moses, Greg Book 1998 Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence. Selma (film) DuVernay, Ava (director) Film/Video 2014 A 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC and John Lewi... Steady Hands for Freedom: Book Review Brewer, Rose M. Article 2014 Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al Still Got the News: Against The Current vol. 84 Esch, Betsy Article 2000 As a student activist at the University of Michigan in the middle and late 1980s, I was part of a coalition of activists who planned and carried out a democratic takeover of our school's newspaper, Th... This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Cobb, Charles E. Jr. Book 2014 Charles Cobb, a veteran civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the American South, unfolds a powerful narrative about Southern grass... The todayness of Selma, USA, 1965 Denby, Charles Article 1965 The arrest of over 3,500 Negroes in Selma, Ala., in three weeks just because they tried to vote, the sight of a Negro woman pinned to the ground by three fat deputies of Sheriff James Clark while Clar... We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement Quest, Matthew Article 2014 The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their communit... Ida B. Wells: A Black Woman's Fight Against Lynch Terror Martin, Lisa Article 2014 Born a slave in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells was in the forefront of the fight for black rights in the post-Reconstruction era -- a time of widespread lynch-rope terror when black... You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A personal history of our times Zinn, Howard Book 1994 Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. From the Connexions ArchivesFreedom indivisible: Gays and Lesbians in the African American Civil Rights movement PhD Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2013 Leighton, Jared E Article 2013 |
