Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?"1973

Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years—a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement.

The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.

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Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?"1973

Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years—a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement.

The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.

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Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?

Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?"1973

by Christopher P. Lehman
Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?

Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967-1973: A Fragile Coalition, 1967â?"1973

by Christopher P. Lehman

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Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years—a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement.

The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.


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ISBN-13: 9781440832666
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/29/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 408
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Christopher P. Lehman, PhD, is professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN.

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