Civil Rights in the USA, 1945-68 Book

Dedication v Chapter 1 Introduction: American Ethnic Minorities Prior to 1945 1
1 America's Racial Groups 2
2 Underlying Reasons for Racial Tensions 3
3 Escalating Tensions c1600-c1860 5
4 Suggested Solutions to the Black Problem in the Early Nineteenth Century 8
5 The Civil War 10
6 The Post-war South: Reconstruction (1865-c1877) to Segregation 12
7 Factors Leading to Improvements for Blacks 1900-45 18 Chapter 2 The Black Situation at the End of the Second World War 32
1 The Impact of the War on Non-whites 32
2 Blacks Outside the South in Late 1945 37
3 Southern Blacks in Late 1945 38
4 Key Debates 42 Chapter 3 The Start of the Civil Rights Movement 1945-60 44
1 President Truman's Early Life and Career 45
2 How Much Did Truman Help Blacks? 46
3 Conclusions about Progress under Truman 54
4 The Role of Eisenhower (1953-61) 56
5 BROWN (1954) 57
6 Emmett Till and Autherine Lucy 61
7 Signs of Change by 1955 62
8 The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956) 63
9 Little Rock (1957) 69
10 Eisenhower's Civil Rights Acts (1957 and 1960) 71
11 The Cold War and Decolonisation 73
12 The Eisenhower Years - Conclusions 74
13 Key Debate 76 Study Guide 77 Chapter 4 The 1960s - I: King of the Civil Rights Movement? 79
1 Martin Luther King 80
2 Martin Luther King - Saint or Sinner? 83
3 The Leadership of the Civil Rights Movement 85
4 King and the Leadership of the Civil Rights Movement - Conclusions 105
5 Key Debates 107 Study Guide 110 Chapter 5 The 1960s - II: Black Power 112
1 The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X 112
2 The Rise of Black Power in the 1960s 119
3 Black Power and the Black Panthers 122
4Why did Black Power Decline? 126
5 What had the Black Power Movement Achieved? 127
6 Key Debates 129 Study Guide 131 Chapter 6 The 1960s - III: Kennedy, Johnson and the 'Black Problem' 132
1 President Kennedy (1961-3) 133
2 Lyndon Johnson Before the Presidency 139
3 President Johnson (1963-9) 143
4 Conclusions 153
5 Key Debate 154 Study Guide 155 Chapter 7 Other Minorities and the 1960s' Protest Culture 156
1 Native Americans and the Black Civil Rights Movement 157
2 The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on Hispanic Americans 159
3 Immigration 162 Study Guide 164 Chapter 8 Equality in 1968? Conclusions 165
1 Black Americans in the South in 1968 165
2 Black Americans Outside the South in 1968 166
3 Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in 1968 168 Study Guide 169 Glossary 170 Index 175