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The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 - Black Agency and People of Good Will (Hardcover)
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The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 - Black Agency and People of Good Will (Hardcover)
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The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 is a history of the
African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of
the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the
1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black movements,
explaining consistent themes and controversies during those years.
The main focus is on the black activists who led the movement and
the white people who supported them. The principal theme is that
African American agency propelled the progress and that whites
often helped. Even whites who were not sympathetic to black demands
were useful, often because it was to their advantage to act as
black allies. Even white opponents could be coerced into
cooperation or, at least, non-opposition. White people of good will
with shallow understanding were frustrating, but they were
sometimes useful. Even if they did not work for black rights, they
did not work against them, and sometimes helped because they had no
better options. Until now, the history of the African American
movement from 1865 to 1950 has not been covered as one coherent
story. There have been many histories of African Americans that
have treated the subject in one chapter or part of a chapter, and
several excellent books have concentrated on a specific time
period, such as Reconstruction or World War II. Other books have
focused on one aspect of the time, such as lynching or the nature
of Jim Crow. This is the first book to synthesize the history of
the movement in a coherent whole.
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