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Start Over Topic history of civil rights movements Publication Type Book Reviews Journal journal of american history
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1. The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956.

Author

Miller, Keith D.

Subjects
*AFRICAN American civil rights, *TWENTIETH century, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORY of civil rights movements, RACE relations in the United States
Abstract

Reviews the book, `The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Peter Holloran and Dana L.H. Powell.

Published
1998
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2. Book reviews.

Author

Bracey Jr., John H.

Subjects
*TWENTIETH century, *AFRICAN American civil rights, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORY of civil rights movements, RACE relations in the United States
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve: January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell and Louis R. Harlan.

Published
1993

3. Beginnings and Endings: Life Stories and the Periodization of the Civil Rights Movement.

Author

Nasstrom, Kathryn L.

Subjects
HISTORY of civil rights movements, ORAL history
Abstract

Focuses on the periodization of civil rights movement in the United States through the life history method of oral history. How the storytelling of activist Frances Freeborn Pauley supported the chronologies of the movement; Chronological framework based on interviews with Pauley; Conclusions.

Published
1999
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4. The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.

Author

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd

Subjects
HISTORY of civil rights movements, CIVIL rights, HUMAN rights, VIETNAM War, 1961-1975
Abstract

Explores the history of civil rights movement in the U.S. Approval of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Impact of the Vietnam War on civil rights movement in the country; Struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for civil rights; Views on the early studies of the Afro-American freedom movement.

Published
2005
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