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Publication Date: 1970
Pages: 198
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Race Relations in the USA, 1954-68. Keesing's Research Report, Number 4.
Contents of this report on the development of the civil rights movement include: (1) Introduction--the economic and social status of Negroes in 1952, Negro movements for civil rights, the Ku Klux Klan; (2) Racial desegregation in education, 1954-57; (3) The Little Rock Crisis, 1957-59; (4) Continued desegregation in education, 1958-64; (5) Measures to end racial segregation in public amenities, 1954-63, including: court rulings, 1952-55; administrative measures, 1953-55; anti-integration moves in southern states, 1957; Supreme Court rulings, 1958-60; cut in Negro welfare services in Louisiana; Federal counter-action; and, continued desegregation of public facilities, 1961-63; (6) The Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964--Civil Rights Commission's reports--Federal action on Civil Rights; (7) The Civil Rights movement and urban riots, 1960-65; (8) The Voting Rights Act of 1965--other civil rights legislation and developments, 1966-68; (9) Further agitation by Civil Rights movement, 1966-68; and, (10) The death of Martin Luther King, Junior. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Leadership, Black Organizations, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Equal Facilities, Federal Courts, Federal State Relationship, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, School Desegregation, Urban Problems, Voting Rights, Welfare Services
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N.Y. ($6.95)
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