Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader

by Clarence Taylor

Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award. Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did not arise spontaneously in 1954 with the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The black struggle for civil rights can be traced back to the arrival of the first Africans, and to their work in the plantations, manufacturies, and homes of the Americas. Civil rights was thus born as labor history. Civil Rights Since 1787 tells...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782159
• ISBN13: 9780814782156
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 936 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"