African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990 / / Sean Dennis Cashman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cashman, Sean Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Sean Dennis Cashman surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America. The book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s.Cashman describes the profound upheaval that African-Americans experienced as they moved from the outright racism of the South through the Great Migration northward from 1915, and sets the contribution of African-American leaders within their historical context: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and many others. The work also describes the shift in emphasis in the movement from legal cases brought before the courts to mass protest movements and, later, the change in direction from civil rights to Black Power and, later, Pan-Africanism. Far more than just a history of civil rights leaders, this book explains how the achievements of African-American writers, artists, singers, and athletes contributed to a wider understanding of the humanity and culture of black Americans. Cashman details, among others, the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance, the films of Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, and the works of Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Written in an engaging style, the text is accompanied by a wealth of illustrations, some well known, others in print for the first time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- PART ONE BEFORE -- Introduction -- 1. Southern Efficiency and Northern Charm -- 2. Not in the Mood -- PART TWO. THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Introduction -- 3. Made Visible -- 4. "Black and White Together, We Shall Overcome": Martin Luther King and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement -- 5. A Dream beyond the New Frontier -- 6. Civil Rights and Black Power -- 7. Chaos Is Come Again -- PART THREE. AFTER -- Introduction -- 8. Political Access -- 9. The Moving Finger -- Bibliography -- Index