After the dream [electronic resource] : black and white southerners since 1965 / Timothy J. Minchin and John A. Salmond.
Minchin, Timothy J.; Salmond, John A.
2011
E185.61 .M655 2011eb
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Title After the dream [electronic resource] : black and white southerners since 1965 / Timothy J. Minchin and John A. Salmond.
Author Minchin, Timothy J.
ISBN 9780813129884 (electronic book)
0813129885 (electronic book)
9786613017840
6613017841
9780813129785
0813129788
Imprint Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 405 p.) : ill.
Call Number E185.61 .M655 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973/.0496073075
Summary Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was "on its deathbed" and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement had won many battles in the struggle for racial equality by the mid-1960s, including legislation to guarantee black voting rights and to desegregate public accommodations, the fight to implement the new laws was just starting. In reality, King's speech in Montgomery represented a new beginning rather than a conclusion to the movement, a fact that King acknowledged in the address. After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 begins where many histories of the civil rights movement end, with King's triumphant march from the iconic battleground of Selma to Montgomery. Timothy J. Minchin and John Salmond focus on events in the South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After the Dream examines the social, economic, and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of black southerners, white resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nation's political will. The book also provides a fascinating history of the often-overlooked period of race relations during the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, and both George H.W. and George W. Bush. Ending with the election of President Barack Obama, this study will influence contemporary historiography on the civil rights movement.
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Added Author Salmond, John A.
Series Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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Introduction
Historic progress : public accommodations and voting rights in the Johnson years
"Token beginnings" : the battle to desegregate southern schools and workplaces, 1965-1968
A fragmented crusade? : the civil rights struggle in the aftermath of the King assassination, 1968-1970
Defiance and compliance : the breakdown of freedom of choice in the south's schools
The busing years : school desegregation in the wake of Swann
Home has changed : southern race relations in the early 1970s
Paving the way for full participation : civil rights in the Ford years
Mixed outcomes : civil rights in the Carter years
"No substantial progress" : blacks, the economy, and racial polarization in the late 1970s
The Reagan counterrevolution
From Bush to Bush : the complexities of civil rights
The aftermath : from history to memory
Poverty and progress : four decades of change
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