The American civil rights movement: readings & interpretations

Pt. 1 Visions of freedom and Civil Rights: Beginnings

ch. 1. The architecture of segregation

Introduction

Booker T. Washington, "Speech at the Atlanta Exposition, September 18, 1895."

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, "On Mr. Booker T. Washington and others"

Charles Flint Kellogg, "Lynching and mob violence"

Patricia Sullivan, "On the eve of the New Deal"

Asa Philip Randolph, "Call to Negro America to march on Washington for jobs and equal participation and National Defense on July 1, 1941"

Jack M. Bloom, "Nineteen forty-eight, the opening of the breach"

John Dittmer, "We return fighting"

John Dittmer, "Rising expectations, 1946-54"

Barbara Diane Savage, "Radio and the political discourse of racial equality"

ch. 2. Resistance, organizations and early movement leaders

Introduction

Robin Kelly, "We are not what we seem: Rethinking black working class opposition in the Jim Crow South" Aldon Morris, "Domination, church and the NAACP"

August Meier and John Bracey, "The NAACP as a reform movement, 1909-1965: To reach the conscience of America"

Genna Rae McNeil, "Charles Hamilton Houston: Social engineer for Civil Rights"

Thurgood Marshall, "The legal attack to secure Civil Rights" Speech delivered July 13, 1944 at the NAACP wartime conference

August Meier, "On the role of Martin Luther King"

Clayborne Carson, "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic leadership in a mass struggle"

Charles Payne, "Ella Baker and models of social change"

Ella Baker, "Organization without dictatorship"

Pt. II. The modern Civil Rights movement

ch. 3. Brown and beyond: Rising expectations: 1953-1959

Introduction

Waldo Martin, "Shades of Brown: Black freedom, white supremacy, and the law"

"Southern Manifesto: Declaration of constitutional principles"

John White, "Nixon was the one: Edgar Daniel Nixon, the MIA and the Montgomery bus boycott"

Rosa Parks, "... I tried to think about what might happen"

Elizabeth Eckford, "Don't let them see You cry"

David Kirp, "Retreat to legalism: The Little Rock school desegregation case in historic perspective"

Emergence of a mass movement: Student activism 1960-1965

Introduction

Joanne Grant, "Political Mama"

Howell Raines, "Freedom riders"

Adam Fairclough, "Confrontation, Albany and Birmingham"

Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" April 16, 1963

Keith Miller and Emily Lewis, "Touchstones, authorities and Marion Anderson: The making of I Have a Dream"

Bayard Rustin, "From protest to politics: The future of the Civil Rights movement"

Lyndon B. Johnson, "The voting rights Act should be passed"

Douglas A. Blackmon, "Silent partner: How the South's fight to Uphold segregation was funded Up North"

Malcolm X, "The ballot or the bullet"

Michael Eric Dyson, "Meeting Malcolm"

ch. 5. The militant Years: 1966-1968

Introduction

Allen Matusow, "From Civil Rights to black power: The case of SNCC, 1960-1966"

Howard Zinn, "The limits of nonviolence"

Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer, "The Meredith march, 1966, 'Hit them now,"

Bobby Seale, "Seize the time"

Stokley Carmichal (Kwame Ture), "Toward black liberation"

Charles Payne, "Mrs. Hamer is no longer relevant, The loss of the organizing tradition"

Jack M. Bloom, "Ghetto revolts, black power, and the limits of the Civil Rights Coalition"

Pt. III: Civil Rights Issues after "The movement"

Early twenty-first century Civil Rights Issues

Introduction

Stanley Crouch, "Blues collar clarity"

Raymond Franklin, "From Civil Rights to civic disgrace"

Randall Kennedy, "Persuasion and distrust: The affirmative action debate"

Stephen Carter, "Racial preferences? So what?"

Ron Nixon, "Turning back the clock on voting rights"

Lise Funderburg, "Integration anxiety"

Robert Staples, "The Illusion of racial equality"

Michael Eric Dyson, "Why race will continue to rule"

Randall Kennedy, "My race problem"

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, "The perpetuation of the Underclass"

Joe Feagin, "The continuing significance of race".