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Start Over Topic history of civil rights movements Region united states Publisher cambridge university press
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1. Reviews.

Author

Ward, Brian

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., Volume 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' edited by Clayborne Carson and others.

Published
1998

2. Reviews.

Author

Ward, Brian

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., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny Russell.

Published
1992

3. State of the Art.

Author

Fairclough, Adam

Subjects
HISTORY of civil rights movements, HISTORIOGRAPHY, 20TH century United States history
Abstract

Discusses the importance of the historical context in explaining the emergence of the civil rights movement. Relation of the political currents of the Roosevelt-Truman years to the civil rights movement; Historians' tendency to focus on Martin Luther King Jr. and the groups that were most committed to marching and going to jail; Civil rights historiography's tendency to segregate history by race; Relationship between the civil rights movement and Big Business.

Published
1990