New Civil Rights Movement Reader

“Including speeches, photographs, pamphlets, interviews, reports, and manifestos, this reader captures the visions and voices of charismatic leaders and everyday people. It reminds us that the civil rights movement was never just about ‘civil rights’ but culminated in today’s capacious demands for peace, justice, and human rights.”—Martha Biondi, author of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City and The Black Revolution on Campus“The New Civil Rights Movement Reader is the pedagogical tool that many of us have been waiting for! Finally, educators have the major organizers, organizations, and documents of the long civil rights movement at their fingertips in order to help students to challenge conventional understandings of movement leaders, thinkers, and strategies.”—Ashley Farmer, author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era“In a world of rapidly changing headlines and a cacophony of digital distractions and unchecked opinions, Parker and McWilliams return us to the sources to quiet the noise in order to hear from those who walked the walk for freedom.”—FranÇoise N. Hamlin, author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II“This wonderful volume will help to reshape how we understand, and teach, the civil rights movement. For its impressive chronological scope and wide geographic range, The New Civil Rights Movement Reader has no parallel.”—Jason Sokol, author of All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn and The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.