The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

Contents

Acknowledgements x

Publisher’s Acknowledgement xii

Abbreviations xiii

Chronology xv

Who’s Who xxii

Glossary xxviii

Maps xxxv

THE PROBLEM 1

PART ONE THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN 7

1 JIM CROW SOUTH 9

PART TWO THE NEW NEGRO 13

2 ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT 15

3 THE BROWNDECISION 22

4 LITTLE ROCK CRISIS 32

PART THREE FREEDOM BOUND 41

5 MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT 43

6 SIT-INS 54

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