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Brian Ward, Tony Badger, eds. The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. Washington Square: New York University Press, 1996. On the cover of this book is a rarely seen photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. signing the visitor's register at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne after receiving an honorary degree in November 1967 from that institution

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The Making of Martin Luth. has been added to your Cart. This book constitutes a challenge to many of the agendas established by civil rights scholarship of the past twenty-five years and offers new insights into the origins, development, representation, and international ramifications of the movement.

Leading scholars reassess the origins and trajectory of the American civil rights movement. Please provide me with your latest book news, views and details of Waterstones’ special offers. Essays highlight the importance of black activism in the 1930s and 1940s and show how white liberals misunderstood the movement. Comparisons with Britain and South Africa reveal how movement leaders secured sympathetic responses at home and abroad and how nonviolence characterised the movement.

BRIAN WARD is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Director of that institution's Martin Luther King Memorial Conference. He has published widely on African-American history and culture and is completing a book on African-American popular music and the civil rights and black power movements. TONY BADGER is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He previously taught for over twenty years at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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The unfinished business of the civil rights movement primarily is economic. This book turns backward toward history to examine the ways African Americans have engaged this continuing challenge. Автор: Feldstein Ruth Название: How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement ISBN: 0195314034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195314038 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг

Brian Ward, Anthony J. Badger, Martin Luther King, J. Memorial Conference on Civil Rights and Race . Setting up reading intentions help you organise your course reading. It makes it easy to scan through your lists and keep track of progress.

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Martin Luther King was a great American who worked for civil rights in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. He fought for the rights of African Americans and many people, blacks as well as whites, supported him. In 1964 he received the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King saw how badly black people were treated and during the 1950s he became involved in the Civil Rights movement. In 1955 a black woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested because she didn’t give up her seat to a white person on a bus. This incident made many blacks angry. They protested and decided to boycott the city’s buses. Martin Luther King became the president of this boycott.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a well-known civil rights activist who had a great deal of influence on American society in the . In 1963, King and other leaders of the civil rights movement organized a huge march for equal rights in Washington, . was a well-known civil rights activist who had a great deal of influence on American society in the 1950s and 1960s. His strong belief in nonviolent protest helped set the tone of the movement. Boycotts, protests, and marches were eventually effective, and much legislation was passed against racial discrimination. With a massive crowd of over 200,000 followers, the march protested racial discrimination in schools and the workforce. They demanded minimum wage for all workers. It was the largest gathering in Washington, .