edited by Albert Blaustein and Robert L. Zangrando
Northwestern University Press, 1991
Paper: 978-0-8101-0920-9
Library of Congress Classification E184.6.C58 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume brings together for the first time all the important primary documents in the history of civil rights in the United States. Beginning in 1619, it contains original texts on slavery, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, desegregation, the NAACP, and the black power movement. A thought-provoking preface provides an overview of the developments in civil rights law and public policy to the present day.

Many of the documents included were previously scattered in hard-to-find sources, not readily available to instructors and students. Civil Rights and African Americans is the first collection of all the seminal texts of the civil rights struggle, an invaluable scholarly reference and riveting reading for anyone interested in the history of racial conflict in the United States.