Civil Rights For Beginners

A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently this material is scholarly and at best only marginally accessible to the general public. Moreover many of the books on the modern civil rights movement focus exclusively on a narrow historical time frame and often on widely recognized pu...