Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the southern civil rights movement /

Compiled from his original lecture notes, Bond's book brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Beginning with the movement's origins in the early twentieth century...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 (Author)
Other Authors:	Horowitz, Pamela, 1946- (Editor, writer of foreword.), Theoharis, Jeanne (Editor), Lyon, Danny (Photographer), Newkirk, Vann R., 1962- (writer of afterword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) > History. Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century. African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by Pam Horowitz
Introduction: What Julian Bond Taught Me / by Jeanne Theoharis
Introduction to the course / by Julian Bond
White Supremacy and the Founding of the NAACP
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
World War II
President Truman and the Road to Brown
Brown v. Board of Education
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The 1956 Presidential Election and the 1957 Civil Rights Act
Little Rock, 1957
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Sit-Ins and the Founding of SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Freedom Rides
Kennedy and Civil Rights, 1961
Albany, Georgia, 1961
Mississippi Voter Registration
Birmingham
Mississippi, Medgar Evers, and the Civil Rights Bill
The March on Washington
The Civil Rights Act
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
Selma, Alabama, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Vietnam, Black Power, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King
Afterword: We Are in Need of Shaking / by Vann R. Newkirk II.