Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction write by Kate Masur. This book was released on 2021-03-23. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2022 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, Northern and Southern, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws. They countered the states’ insistences that states were merely trying to maintain the domestic peace with the equal-rights promises they found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They were pastors, editors, lawyers, politicians, ship captains, and countless ordinary men and women, and they fought in the press, the courts, the state legislatures, and Congress, through petitioning, lobbying, party politics, and elections. Long stymied by hostile white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, the movement’s ideals became increasingly mainstream in the 1850s, particularly among supporters of the new Republican party. When Congress began rebuilding the nation after the Civil War, Republicans installed this vision of racial equality in the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. These were the landmark achievements of the first civil rights movement. Kate Masur’s magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Activists such as John Jones, a free Black tailor from North Carolina whose opposition to the Illinois “black laws” helped make the case for racial equality, demonstrate the indispensable role of African Americans in shaping the American ideal of equality before the law. Without enforcement, promises of legal equality were not enough. But the antebellum movement laid the foundation for a racial justice tradition that remains vital to this day.
Moon U. S. Civil Rights Trail
Moon U. S. Civil Rights Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moon U. S. Civil Rights Trail write by Deborah D. Douglas. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Moon U. S. Civil Rights Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes a foldout map of the Civil Rights Trail.
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement write by Dennis Chong. This book was released on 1991-06-18. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government.
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement write by Daniel Levine. This book was released on 2000. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known as the man who organized the Great March on Washington in 1963, Bayard Rustin was a vital force in the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1980s. Rustins's activism embraced the wide range of crucial issues of his time: communism, international pacifism, and race relations. Rustin's long activist career began with his association with A. Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Then, as a member of A. J. Muste's Fellowship of Reconciliation, he participated in the "Journey of Reconciliation" (an early version of the "Freedom Rides" of 1961). He was a close associate of Martin Luther King in Montgomery and Atlanta and rose to prominence as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin played a key role in applying nonviolent direct action to American race relations while rejecting the separatism of movements like Black Power in the 1960s, even at the risk of his being marginalized by the younger generation of civil rights activists. In his later years he tried to hold the civil rights coalition together and to fight for the economic changes he thought were necessary to decrease racism. Daniel Levine has written the first scholarly biography that examines Rustin's public as well as private persona in light of his struggles as a gay black man and as an activist who followed his own principles and convictions. The result is a rich portrait of a complex, indomitable advocate for justice in American society.
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil Rights Movement write by Michael Ezra. This book was released on 2009-05-13. Civil Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a collection of essays about the history of the civil rights movement, focusing on the efforts of clergy, student activists, black nationalists, and such organizations as the NCAAP and Core to bring about racial equality.
