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"Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor have plumbed historical
documents to produce a study that has both truth and urgency. . . .
You could not do better than this book."
--"Jewish Currents"
Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award.
"As a reference book, Civil Rights Since 1787 serves as an
outstanding source. The book gives a lucid account of the history
of institutional slavery and racism in America that is all too
often perplexing when presented by educational texts."
"--Chicago Streetwise"
"An unusually challenging illumination of our still very
unfinished history of equal protection of the laws. No classroom,
library, or legislature at any level should be without it, and
nearly everyone will want to argue with parts of it."
"--Nat Hentoff, author of Living the Bill of Rights and Free
Speech for Me--But Not for Thee"
"Civil Rights Since 1787 is one of those rare documentary
collections that rewrites history. Birnbaum and Taylor not only
take a long and wide view of the movement, but they persuasively
re-define civil rights to encompass many criticle struggles for
social justice. This book is indispensable."
"--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics,
and the Black Working Class"
"This is a particularly valuable collection, an excellent reader
on the struggle for racial equality."
"--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United
States"
." . .Ollman's and Birnbaum's book is a good measure of the
essential core of progressive politics--and a particularly welcome
one at this juncture."--"Monthly Review"
Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did
not arisespontaneously in 1954 with the landmark Brown v. Board of
Education decision. The black struggle for civil rights can be
traced back to the arrival of the first Africans, and to their work
in the plantations, manufacturies, and homes of the Americas. Civil
rights was thus born as labor history.
Civil Rights Since 1787 tells the story of that struggle in its
full context, dividing the struggle into six major periods, from
slavery to Reconstruction, from segregation to the Second
Reconstruction, and from the current backlash to the future
prospects for a Third Reconstruction. The "prize" that the movement
has sought has often been reduced to a quest for the vote in the
South. But all involved in the struggle have always known that the
prize is much more than the vote, that the goal is economic as well
as political. Further, in distinction from other work, Civil Rights
Since 1787 establishes the links between racial repression and the
repression of labor and the left, and emphasizes the North as a
region of civil rights struggle.
Featuring the voices and philosophies of orators, activists, and
politicians, this anthology emphasizes the role of those ignored by
history, as well as the part that education and religion have
played in the movement. Civil Rights Since 1787 serves up an
informative mix of primary documents and secondary analysis and
includes the work of such figures as Ella Baker, Mary Frances
Berry, Clayborne Carson, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Eric
Foner, Herb Gutman, Fannie Lou Hamer, A. Leon Higginbotham, Darlene
Clark Hine, Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Manning
Marable, Nell Painter, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, A.
Philip Randolph, Mary Church Terrell, and Howard Zinn.
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