Better day coming : Blacks and equality, 1890-2000 / Adam Fairclough
- Bib ID:
- 1060802
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fairclough, Adam
- Description:
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- New York : Viking, 2001
- xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0670875929 (alkaline paper)
- 0142001295 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Historian Adam Fairclough's Better Day Coming chronicles the struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in a society that, after the collapse of Reconstruction, sanctioned racial segregation, racial discrimination, and white political supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Failure of Reconstruction and the Triumph of White Supremacy
- 2. Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
- 3. Booker T. Washington and the Strategy of Accommodation
- 4. The Rise of the NAACP
- 5. The Great War and Racial Equality
- 6. Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
- 7. The Radical Thirties
- 8. Blacks in the Segregated South, 1919-42
- 9. The NAACP's Challenge to White Supremacy, 1935-45
- 10. Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, 1946-55
- 11. The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-60
- 12. The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-63
- 13. Birmingham, the Freedom Summer, and Selma
- 14. The Rise and Fall of Black Power
- 15. The Continuing Struggle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-369) and index.
- Subject:
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations
- Southern States -- Race relations
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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