Access to History: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA 1850–2009 for Pearson Edexcel Second Edition
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Language
English
ISBN
9781510457461
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Title Page
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Contents
Introduction: about this book
CHAPTER 1 Context: Black Americans to 1865
1 White people’s perceptions of black Americans to 1850
2 Slavery and the Civil War
CHAPTER 2 ‘Free at last’, 1865–77
1 The 13th Amendment (1865)
2 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–77
3 The backlash from white people
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CHAPTER 3 The triumph of Jim Crow, 1883–c.1900
1 The spread of the Jim Crow laws
2 Excluding black voters
3 The response of the Supreme Court
4 The resistance of black people
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CHAPTER 4 The changing geographical distribution of black Americans, c.1850–c.1930
1 The geographical distribution of black Americans in the nineteenth century
2 The Great Migration
3 Case study: Harlem
CHAPTER 5 The New Deal and race relations, 1933–41
1 The influence of white Southerners in the Democratic Party
2 Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
3 Conclusions: the impact of the New Deal on black Americans
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CHAPTER 6 The Second World War and the changing geography of black America
1 Migration North and West, 1941–5
2 The post-1945 Northern white exodus to the suburbs
CHAPTER 7 I have a dream, 1954–68
1 The NAACP, Earl Warren and the Supreme Court
2 The Montgomery bus boycott, 1956
3 The work and impact of Martin Luther King Jr, SCLC, SNCC and CORE, 1957–63
4 The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act
5 The role of Malcolm X
6 King, the ghettos and black divisions
7 Black Power
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CHAPTER 8 Changing portrayals of civil rights issues in fiction, film and television
1 Nineteenth-century literary and visual representations of black Americans
2 Birth of a Nation
3 Gone With the Wind
4 Fiction after Gone With the Wind
5 Film, 1940–92
6 Television
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CHAPTER 9 After the 1960s: Barack Obama and black Americans 1968–2009
1 Migration back to the South in the late twentieth century
2 The status of black Americans, 1968–2009
3 Barack Obama – life and career to 2006
4 The Democrat presidential nomination race in 2008
5 Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election
6 The significance of Obama’s victory
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CHAPTER 10 Black Americans 1850–2009 – conclusions
Exam focus
Timeline
Glossary of terms
Further reading
Index
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