罗莎·帕克斯 — —现代民权运动之母For most historians, the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States started on December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown tailor from Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.This brave woman...
Judith Stein
King’s first leadership role within the Civil Rights Movement was during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956. The 381-day protest integrated the Alabama city’s public transit in one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history. The effort began on...
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That decision planted the seeds for the demographics explosion the country is living in now, a shift that historians say happened in part because of a hunger for change and equality created by the civil rights movement. The movement “broke through the whole aura of political stagnation that ...
Danielle McGuire, PhD, is an award-winning Civil Rights historian, public speaker and author ofAt the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power(Knopf). She is a Distinguished Lecturer for...
Board of Education case to protests against the Vietnam War to the fight for black power, Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives looks at events that set the stage for guaranteeing America’s promise to all Americans. In eight chapters, some of the country’s leading social historians ...
Considering high heritability estimates and simplicity of evaluation, the improvement of thrips resistance in this populationbased on plant damage parameters would be possible.doi:10.1080/14743892.2012.669123Judith SteinRoutledgeAmerican Communist History...
explores the last five years in the life of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America's most influen...
The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap." ...