The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction (2024)

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Thomas C. Holt

Thomas C. Holt

James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of American and African American History, University of Chicago

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23 February 2023

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Holt, Thomas C., The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (New York, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Feb. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190605421.001.0001, accessed 12 Sept. 2024.

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The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the Movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle. The Movement provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Emphasizing the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders, its narrative conveys a sense of what a social movement looks and feels like. Most of all, it shows how an intense historical moment can shape its participants even as they shape it. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of “movement” back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.

Keywords: civil rights, grassroots, social movement, mass mobilization, ordinary people

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Race and Ethnicity Social Movements and Social Change African American History

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Very Short Introductions

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