Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) - Softcover

Lawson, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813191548 ISBN 13: 9780813191546

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Synopsis

Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement that is essential reading for anyone concerned about the past, present, and future of race relations in America. Lawson examines the movement from a variety of perspectives-local and national, political and social-to offer penetrating insights into the civil rights movement and its influence on contemporary society . Civil Rights Crossroads also illuminates the role of a broad array of civil rights activists, familiar and unfamiliar. Lawson describes the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson to shape the direction of the struggle, as well as the extraordinary contributions of ordinary people like Fannie Lou Hamer, Harry T. Moore, Ruth Perry, Theodore Gibson, and many other unsung heroes of the most important social movement of the twentieth century. Lawson also examines the decades-long battle to achieve and expand the right of African Americans to vote and to implement the ballot as the cornerstone of attempts at political liberation.

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Review:

Civil Rights Crossroads provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the modern civil rights struggle. Lawson's own previous writings have been important pioneering additions to this literature, and Civil Rights Crossroads brings together the accumulated insights of a leading scholar in the field. - Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University ""An important collection of illuminating and provocative essays that explores new dimensions of the black struggle to demolish Jim Crow segregation and second-class citizenship."" - Darlene Clark Hine, author of Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas ""Lawson's books and articles, including those in Civil Rights Crossroads, are characterized by remarkable continuity and growth."" - Journal of Southern History

About the Author:

Steven F. Lawson, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of several books, including Debating the Civil Rights Movement 1945-1968 and Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813191548
• ISBN 13: 9780813191546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398