The Civil Rights Movement In America (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium In Southern History Series)

The Civil Rights Movement in America (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series)

About the Author Charles W. Eagles is an American historian. He is William F. Winter Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Mississippi and author of several books about the Civil Rights Movement. With essays and commentaries by David Levering Lewis, Clayborne Carson, Steven F. Lawson, Nancy J. Weiss, David J. Garrow, John Dittmer, Neil R. McMillen, Charles V. Hamilton, Mark V. Tushnet, William H. Chafe, and J. Mills Thornton III The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings. Its profound effect upon modern America has so greatly changed relations between the races that C. Vann Woodward has called it the