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OverviewIn the decades following the Civil War, white southerners throughout the region created a system of racial segregation designed to perpetuate white supremacy, guarantee white leadership, and keep black southerners in their place. For over half a century, this brutal, violent, and inhumane system penalized both races educationally, socially, and economically. This collection of speeches examines the conditions that made a Civil Rights Movement necessary, ranging from early supporters of civil rights for African Americans to defenders of segregation, as well as what enabled the movement to triumph. Towns includes many speeches by lesser-known persons, such as Fannie Lou Hamer and James M. Lawson Jr. After World War II, as new opportunities for education, travel, and economic growth for southerners in general and black southerners in particular, a major social movement swept the region. By the mid- to late-1960s, a significant revolution in southern folkways and culture had occurred. By 1965, southern blacks had achieved first-class citizenship under the laws of the land, in spite of the oratorical tirades and the ugly violence of southern white supremacist demagogues. The rhetoric and leadership of many black grassroots activists, along with a solid cadre of white support, created an environment in which the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally leveled the playing field. Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. Stuart TownsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.631kg ISBN: 9780275970048ISBN 10: 0275970043 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 30 October 2002 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction ""The Whites Have Absolute Control of the State Government, and We Intend at Any and All Hazards To Retain It"": Why There Had to be a Civil Rights Movement The River of Change: Beginning to Question the Racist System, 1920s to 1940s Black Southerners Challenge the System, the 1950s: The Movement Begins The Movement Hits Full Stride: The 1960s ""Betrayers of Their Race"": White Liberals ""There Always Has to be a Faubus. ..."": White Resistance and the Rhetoric of Fear"ReviewsIn We Want Our Freedom, Stuart Towns has assembled a broad range of speeches that reflect both the passion and the determination of black activists and their white allies during the Civil Rights years. . . . Although its obvious appeal is to students of rhetoric, We Want Our Freedom will also be of great benefit to those readers interested in the black freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. -John Dittmer Crandall Professor of History DePauw University Author InformationW. STUART TOWNS is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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