Better Day Coming Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Name: Better Day Coming Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
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ISBN: 9780142001295

ISBN-10: 0142001295

ISBN-13: 9780142001295

Edition: 2002

Authors: Adam Fairclough

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Adam Fairclough chronicles the struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in a society that, after the collapse of the reconstruction, sanctioned racial segregation, racial discrimination and political supremacy.

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Adam Fairclough is Professor of American History at the University of East Anglia.



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Failure of Reconstruction and the Triumph of White Supremacy



Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching



Booker T. Washington and the Strategy of Accommodation



The Rise of the NAACP



The Great War and Racial Equality



Marcus Garvey and the UNIA



The Radical Thirties



Blacks in the Segregated South, 1919-42



The NAACP's Challenge to White Supremacy, 1935-45



Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, 1946-55



The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-60



The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-63



Birmingham, the Freedom Summer, and Selma



The Rise and Fall of Black Power



The Continuing Struggle


Notes


Index