The struggle for black equality, 1954-1992
By: Harvard Sitkoff ; consulting editor, Eric Foner.
Contributors: Foner, Eric.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations
Description: Publisher description: The Struggle for Balck Equality is an aresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of the 1990s. harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of the civils-rights organization--SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and others--but a superb study of the continuing problems plaguing the African-American population: the future that in 1980 seemed to hold much promise for a better way of life has by the early1990s hardly lived up to expectations. Jim Crow has gone, but, forty years after Brown, poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservativepolicies, and prolonged recession have made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.