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Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the Southern civil rights movement
Title:
Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the Southern civil rights movement
ISBN:
9780807033203
Physical Description:
xxv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Foreword / by Pam Horowitz -- Introduction: What Julian Bond Taught Me / by Jeanne Theoharis -- Introduction to the course / by Julian Bond -- White Supremacy and the Founding of the NAACP -- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- World War II -- President Truman and the Road to Brown -- Brown v. Board of Education -- The Montgomery Bus Boycott -- The 1956 Presidential Election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act -- Little Rock, 1957 -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC -- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- The Freedom Rides -- Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961 -- Albany, Georgia, 1961 -- Mississippi Voter Registration -- Birmingham -- Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill -- The March on Washington -- The Civil Rights Act -- Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 -- Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King -- Afterword: We Are in Need of Shaking / by Vann R. Newkirk II.
Summary:
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Bond's book brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Beginning with the movement's origins in the early twentieth century, Bond tackles key events from the founding the NAACP to the assassination of Martin Luther King. He explains the youth activism, community ties, and strategizing required to build strenuous and successful movements. --
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