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The civil rights movement / Paul A. Winters, book editor.

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San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

United States -- Race relations.

0737702176 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

0737702168 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Turning points (Greenhaven Press)

287 p. : map ; 23 cm.

The fight for rights begins -- Litigation and political lobbying -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott -- Nonviolence and racial justice -- Malcom X and Black nationalism -- Southern states sidestep desegregation orders -- Massive resistance by Southern states -- The Federal Government's litigation strategy -- Peaceful demonstrations and radical tactics -- The student sit-in campaign -- Civil disobedience in Birmingham -- The march on Washington -- Blacks question the multiracial movement -- Churches join the movement -- Freedom summer -- The ineffectiveness of nonviolence -- From protest to politics -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Johnson and the white backlash -- The end of the Civil Rights Coalition -- The Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966 -- The Anti-War movement -- The fight for rights continues -- Integration or anti-discrimination? -- Equal economic opportunity -- Black voting in Mississippi.

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