Courage to dissent : Atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement /
"The Civil Rights movement that emerged in the United States after World War II was a reaction against centuries of racial discrimination. In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940s through 1980...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- A.T. Walden and pragmatic civil rights lawyering in the postwar era. "Aren't going to let a nigger practice in our courts" : the milieu of civil rights pragmatism
- The roots of pragmatism : voting rights activism inside and outside the courts, 1944-1957
- Housing markets, Black and White : negotiating the postwar housing crisis, 1944-1959
- "Segregation pure and simple" : school, community, and the NAACP's education litigation, 1942-1958
- More than "polite segregation" : Brown in public spaces, 1954-1959
- The movement, its lawyers, and the fight for racial justice during the 1960s. Seeking redress in the streets : the student movment's challenge to racial pragmatism and legal liberalism, 1960-1961
- A volatile alliance : the marriage of lawyers and demonstrators, 1961-1964
- Local people as agents of constitutional change : legal dead ends, the movement against "private" discrimination, and the countermobilization, 1963-1964
- "New politics" : law, organizing, and a "movement of movements" in the Southern ghetto, 1965-1967
- Questioning Brown : lawyers, courts, and communities in struggle. A curious silence : community activism and the legal campaign to implement Brown, 1958-1971
- An end to an "annual agony" : the backlash against Brown and busing, 1971-1974
- "Bus them to Philadelphia" : a feminist lawyer and poor mothers crusade to redeem Brown, 1972-1980.