Book contents
- Antiracist Discourse
- Antiracist Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Framework
- 3 First Writings against Slavery
- 4 Abolition Discourse of the Quakers
- 5 Black Resistance against Slavery and Discrimination
- 6 The Civil Rights Movement
- 7 Jewish Resistance against Antisemitism
- 8 Postwar Antiracist Discourse from UNESCO to Black Lives Matter
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Index
6 - The Civil Rights Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2021
Book contents
- Antiracist Discourse
- Antiracist Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Framework
- 3 First Writings against Slavery
- 4 Abolition Discourse of the Quakers
- 5 Black Resistance against Slavery and Discrimination
- 6 The Civil Rights Movement
- 7 Jewish Resistance against Antisemitism
- 8 Postwar Antiracist Discourse from UNESCO to Black Lives Matter
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The discourse against Jim Crow segregation, discrimination and racism in the 20th century also had important legal successes, such as the work of Thurgood Marshall in the famous Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954. After the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, sparked by Rosa Parks, the Civil Rights Movement in many ways resisted segregation, e.g. as led by Martin Luther King. Radical writers and speakers criticized black integration in dominant white society, as was the case in the discourses of Malcolm X and Stokeley Carmichael.
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- Antiracist DiscourseTheory and History of a Macromovement, pp. 137 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021