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Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement : 1944-1968 / Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, PhD.
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Sims-Alvarado, Karcheik
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]
©2017
Description
127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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F294.A89 N467 2017
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Civil rights
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Georgia
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Atlanta
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History
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20th century
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Pictorial works
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Civil rights movements
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Georgia
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Atlanta
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History
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20th century
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Pictorial works
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African American civil rights workers
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Alabama
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Birmingham
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Biography
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Pictorial works
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Atlanta (Ga.)
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Race relations
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Photobooks
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photobooks
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Series
Images of America
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Summary note
Since Reconstruction, African Americans have served as key protagonists in the rich and expansive narrative of American social protest. Their collective efforts challenged and redefined the meaning of freedom as a social contract in America. During the first half of the 20th century, a progressive group of black business, civic, and religious leaders from Atlanta, Georgia, challenged the status quo by employing a method of incremental gradualism to improve the social and political conditions existent within the city. By the mid-20th century, a younger generation of activists emerged, seeking a more direct and radical approach towards exercising their rights as full citizens. A culmination of the death of Emmitt Till and the Brown decision fostered this paradigm shift by bringing attention to the safety and educational concerns specific to African American youth. Deploying direct-action tactics and invoking the language of civil and human rights, the energy and zest of this generation of activists pushed the modern civil rights movement into a new chapter where young men and women became the voice of social unrest.--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
Contents
Atlanta's Black voting power
And none shall make them afraid
Destroying Jim Crow and enforcing the Brown decision
Atlanta's student movement and SNCC
Direct action tactics
The national campaign for civil and human rights
Atlanta's response to the Civil Rights Act
SNCC, SCLC, and SELMA
Poor people's campaign and opposing the Vietnam War
Honoring a King and his legacy.
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ISBN
1467124982
9781467124980
9781540214577
1540214575
LCCN
2016953988
OCLC
959038496
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