These yet to be United States : civil rights and civil liberties in America since 1945

These yet to be United States : civil rights and civil liberties in America since 1945 /

This book ... on postwar America ... looks at civil rights and civil liberties in tandem and does so over the past fifty years. It merges two historical approaches - of looking at America from the view of those in the highest seats of power and from the perspectives of those too often denied politic...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Theoharis, Jeanne
Other Authors: Theoharis, Athan G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Belmont, Calif.] : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, [2003]
Series:Wadsworth books on America since 1945.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Civil rights.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of a new civil rights movement
  • The Cold War and the decline of dissent
  • A mass movement for civil rights
  • Is this America? : civil rights and the nation
  • Radical movements and the backlash against civil rights
  • The rise of dissent
  • New social movements and post-civil rights politics
  • A new politics of dissent and privacy rights.

Similar Items