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Synopsis
Newman (history, U. of Derby) presents an introductory survey to the civil rights movement in the US. He examines the movement's roots in the 1940s, its activities in and out of the South, the diversity and complexity of its decentralization, the significant contributions of the NAACP and of women, and the support afforded by whites, nationally and in the south. Newman surveys the changes wrought by the movement, and how the de jure discrimination of the South was merely replaced by the de facto discrimination of the North. This work is organized chronologically to provide context, but Newman provides comparative historiography throughout. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR