Title: Better Day Coming
First published: 2001
Description: From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in the United States. Beginning with Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching in the 1890s, Fairclough chronicles the tradition of protest that led to the formation of the NAACP, Booker T. Washington and the strategy of accommodation, Marcus Garvey and the push for black nationalism, through to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. Throughout, Fairclough presents a judicious interpretation of historical events that balances the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement against the persistence of racial and economic inequalities. `
Subjects: Race relations, Sociology, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Nonfiction, African Americans, History, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations, Southern states, race relations, New York Times reviewed
Places: Southern States, United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.61 .F167 2001