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African American History : From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement

Editor in Chief: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia

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1. Many Thousand Gone: The Black Experience in Colonial America
2. In Hope of Liberty: African American Life in the Age of Revolution
3. Now Comes the Test: Race, Nation, and the Limits of Freedom in the Early Republic
4. There Is a River: Black Protest in Antebellum America
5. A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties
6. The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
7. The Betrayal of the Negro: Black Accommodation and Black Protest in the Era of Jim Crow
8. If We Must Die: World War I and the New Negro Renaissance
9. Making a New Deal: African Americans, Organized Labor, and Shifting Political Alliances
10. Double V: African Americans, World War II, and the Dawn of Cold War Era Politics
11. From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
12. Fire Next Time: Martin Luther King, the Poor People’s Campaign, and Opposition to the Vietnam War
13. Say It Loud: Black Power, Black Feminism, and the Search for a New Radical Paradigm
14. From Protest to Politics: Black Life in the Post–Civil Rights Era
15. From Katrina to Obama: Race in the New Millennium

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Malcolm X: "Message to the Grass Roots" (1963)
Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention (1964)
Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)
Ella Baker: "The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle" (1969)

Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Ralph J. Bunche: "The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted" (1949)
Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Desegregation (1957)
Walter Reuther: Address before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1957)
Roy Wilkins: "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back" (1957)
Ella Baker: "Bigger than a Hamburger" (1960)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)
George Wallace: Inaugural Address as Governor (1963)
John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Address (1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964)
Moynihan Report (1965)
Malcolm X: "After the Bombing" (1965)
South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)
Bond v. Floyd (1966)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Death of Martin Luther King (1968)
Ella Baker: "Developing Community Leadership" (1970)

Unit Exercises: African American History, Unit 11
Short-answer Questions: African American History, Unit 11
Key Terms: African American History, Unit 11
Key Concepts: African American History, Unit 11
Key Arguments: African American History, Unit 11

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