The Civil Rights Movement by Mark Newman (Author)

Mark Newman outlines the range of white responses to the Civil Rights Movement and analyses both northern and southern opinion. He examines the role of the federal government, the church and organized labor, as well as the impact of the Cold War. The book discusses local, regional, and national civil rights campaigns; the utility of nonviolent direct action; and the resurgence of Black Nationalism. And it explains the development, achievements and disintegration of the national civil rights coalition, the role of Martin Luther King Jr. and the contribution of many otherwise ordinary men and women to the movement.
Product details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Praeger Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2004 Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0275985296 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0275985295 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.5 x 9.21 inches  MARK NEWMAN is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Derby and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of the award-winning Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 (University of Alabama Press, 2001) and Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi (University of Georgia Press, 2004).