The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America

Part of a special issue on race, security, and social activism in the U.S. The history of the interaction of the ideas put forward by the Black Power and the Civil Rights movements is explored. It is argued that although the challenge mounted by these movements in the 1960s was dependent on the cont...

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Main Author: Bush, Roderick D. 1945-2013 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2003
In: Social justice
Year: 2003, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-66
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jalata, Asafa
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
United States History
Civil Rights
History
Black people > Political activity
Essays
Religious leaders
Black Muslims (Nation of Islam)
Nonfiction
Authors
Nobel Prize winners
Peace awards
Clergy
Civil rights workers
Public officers
Historiography of the Cold War
Cold War, 1945-1991
Right & left (Political science)
Civil rights movements > United States
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Summary:Part of a special issue on race, security, and social activism in the U.S. The history of the interaction of the ideas put forward by the Black Power and the Civil Rights movements is explored. It is argued that although the challenge mounted by these movements in the 1960s was dependent on the continual mobilization of an insurrectionary community and thus could not be sustained, the much-lamented shattering of the 1960s left-liberal consensus was an inevitable and indeed liberating transformation for revolutionary social activism.