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The American civil rights movement represents one of the most
remarkable social revolutions in all of world history. While no one
would discount the significance of the leadership of Martin Luther
King and others, we should also recognize that the fight could not
have been waged without the countless foot soldiers in the
trenches. As an important corrective to the traditional "great man"
studies, these essays emphasize the importance of grassroots
actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national
civil renewal. These biographies assert the importance of
individuals on the local level working towards civil rights and the
influence that this primarily African-American movement had on
others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism,
and gay rights. Through engaging biographies of such varied
individuals as Abraham Galloway, Ida B. Wells, James K. Vardaman,
Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Sylvia Rivera, Glisson widens the scope
of most Civil Rights studies beyond the 1954-1965 time frame to
include its full history since the Civil War. By widening the time
frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often
unrewarded and generational nature of social change.
The American civil rights movement represents one of the most
remarkable social revolutions in all of world history. While no one
would discount the significance of the leadership of Martin Luther
King and others, we should also recognize that the fight could not
have been waged without the countless foot soldiers in the
trenches. As an important corrective to the traditional "great man"
studies, these essays emphasize the importance of grassroots
actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national
civil renewal. These biographies assert the importance of
individuals on the local level working towards civil rights and the
influence that this primarily African-American movement had on
others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism,
and gay rights. Through engaging biographies of such varied
individuals as Abraham Galloway, Ida B. Wells, James K. Vardaman,
Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Sylvia Rivera, Glisson widens the scope
of most Civil Rights studies beyond the 1954 1965 time frame to
include its full history since the Civil War. By widening the time
frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often
unrewarded and generational nature of social change."
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly
different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War.
Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women
in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had
transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings
together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of
modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments.
These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various
societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the
Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today. Charles
W. Calhoun connects all of these essays with a comprehensive
introduction that places each article in an understandable
historical context. For the second edition of this successful book,
each essay was revised and three new pieces have been added that
explore technology, consumerism, intellectual life, and race in
late nineteenth century America.
From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth
century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's
historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Eric Arnesen gives
us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of
African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a
part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely
remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is
far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial
victory. In a sweeping narrative, Arnesen re-creates the heroic
efforts by black locomotive firemen, brakemen, porters, dining car
waiters, and redcaps to fight a pervasive system of racism and job
discrimination fostered by their employers, white co-workers, and
the unions that legally represented them even while barring them
from membership. Decades before the rise of the modern civil rights
movement in the mid-1950s, black railroaders forged their own brand
of civil rights activism, organizing their own associations,
challenging white trade unions, and pursuing legal redress through
state and federal courts. In recapturing black railroaders' voices,
aspirations, and challenges, Arnesen helps to recast the history of
black protest and American labor in the twentieth century.
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly
different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War.
Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women
in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had
transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings
together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of
modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments.
These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various
societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the
Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today. Charles
W. Calhoun connects all of these essays with a comprehensive
introduction that places each article in an understandable
historical context. For the second edition of this successful book,
each essay was revised and three new pieces have been added that
explore technology, consumerism, intellectual life, and race in
late nineteenth century America.
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