description: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002. William T. Martin Riches shows how the black community used the institutions created by de jure segregation to overcome apartheid and white resistance. Riches emphasises their influence on other groups demanding justice in America and warns that recent events and administrations have endangered the gains made by the movement.
language: English
title: The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance
titlecomplete: The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance (Studies in Contemporary History)
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan