...During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, thousands of people were incarcerated in southern jails as a result of their involvement with the civil rights movement. This book follows those activists inside the jail cell to explore the trials and tribulations of life as a civil rights prisoner...

...This chapter argues that the historiographies of the labor movement and civil rights movement have proceeded on similar tracks: national, organization histories have been succeeded by more local, bottom-up approaches. This has simply replaced old orthodoxies with new ones. Second-generation labor...

... attitude in white Shrine literature is one of overwrought reverence for Islam and the Orient, whereas Black Shriners used the mystique of the Orient to advance the causes of racial uplift and civil rights. Black Shriners directly inspired the religious pioneer Noble Drew Ali and new twentieth-century Black...

...-Johnson years, such as Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, the Cold War, the Vietnam War are covered within the context of enforcing and adjudication federal law in Florida. Thorough coverage of the U.S. Attorney’s office, its personnel, and the types of crimes they prosecuted during these years is included...

...This chapter describes some of the struggles faced by the Mississippi freedom movement. As the stronghold of southern white supremacy, Mississippi became the nightmare of many civil rights activists. Recalling some of the accounts of the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...

...This chapter describes how the Reagan administration sought to limit key civil rights policies such as the Voting Rights Act, to defeat fair housing legislation, to support segregated private schools, and to appoint controversial judges. In each case, the bipartisan Leadership Conference on Civil...

... newscasts afforded him something the Bankers Association could not—a broad audience in eastern North Carolina. Pious incitement’s exaggeration, embellishment, and outrage made good television. Helms blamed Democrats for the tumult of the civil rights movement, politicized the Supreme Court rulings on school...

... attitudes about the economic injustices faced by African Americans and looks at the White House Conference on Civil Rights, the riots in Watts and Detroit (and the subsequent Kerner Commission), and SCLC's People's Campaign. It also addresses how LBJ coped with fighting the increasingly costly Vietnam War...

...History has labelled Lyndon B. Johnson “Lincoln's successor.” But how did a southern president representing a predominantly conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's...

...This chapter explores the long trajectory of Addie Wyatt’s activism and leadership in the organized labor movement and women’s movement, both before and after the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Wyatt, an African American female labor leader and civil rights activist, was appointed...

...Efforts in Selma, Alabama, represent a new trend in southern heritage tourism—that of selling the civil rights movement. Across the South, cities from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Memphis, Tennessee, have created museums dedicated to commemorating the civil rights movement...

... Black Belt Deep South Distinctiveness of the South Florida Liberalism Maryland Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma Outer South Pine Belt South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington D C Business Civil rights Class consciousness Conservatism Continuity of southern history...

.... The chapter holds that black activists had long called for the implementation of an aggressive movement for economic civil rights and that Nixon's “Black Cabinet”—a loosely assembled group of black Republican appointees—was central to this effort. The cabinet's specialized outreach program used the Nixon...

...Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites and African Americans stood at the center of the broader Mexican American and Chicano movements...

..., ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954. Carmen V. Harris focuses on the rural dimension of Briggs v. Elliott and its significance to the civil rights movement in this essay. Many of the plaintiffs were farmers, most of them independent landowners. They pursued equal...

...Part 3 discusses the growth of basic legal rights. In the twenty-first century it can be hard to appreciate how remarkably welcoming the federal judiciary was to the claims of the civil rights movement. Part 3 includes chapter 7, “Access to Justice”; chapter 8, “Voting Rights and Political...

...Further examining global aspects of the freedom struggle, this chapter by Stephen Tuck argues that the local/national struggles for racial equality in America and Britain can only be fully understood in their international context. The relationship between civil rights activists in both countries...

...This chapter by Steven Lawson considers the relevance of the 1960s civil rights struggle to contemporary America. It argues that despite racial income disparity and the limited gains achieved through black suffrage, the past offers some comfort for the future: the political emancipation of blacks...

... southern anti-racist women over five decades, taking the “long” civil rights movement as its conceptual frame. It sheds light on the threads of continuity bridging two generations of unique southern activists during the segregation era, demonstrating that these women's racial activism entailed a gradual...

...The final chapter discusses the persistent distinctiveness of white southern women in American society and culture in the late 1960s. Although the white women who participated in the civil rights movement became feminists, they distinguished themselves from the main feminist trends of the 1970s...