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Informationen zum Autor Daniel W. Aldridge III received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He also holds a J.D. from Northwestern University Law School and practiced law for several years in Los Angeles, California. He is currently Associate Professor of History at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, where he teaches courses in African American and United States cultural history. He taught previously at Emory University, from which he received an Emory Minority Fellowship and a Dean's Teaching Fellowship, and at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. His recent works include an article in Diplomatic History on African Americans' anti-colonial efforts during the World War II years. Klappentext Scholars continue to differ over when African Americans' struggle for civil rights began--as well as whether it has actually ended. In the long-awaited volume in our illustrious American History Series, Daniel Aldridge presents a critical and analytical study of the many different leaders and organizations, with special attention to the largely unsung ones whom most student readers never hear about, whose efforts eventually overturned the South's legal and extralegal system of racial discrimination known as Jim Crow, radically transforming society in that blacks fully became part of the American nation. Regardless of one's point of view, no one can dispute that African Americans' long but successful quest for civil rights stands as one of the defining elements in United States history. Becoming American makes ideal reading for courses on the history of the Civil Rights movement as well as a superb supplement to survey courses in African American and United States history. Zusammenfassung Regardless of one's point of view! no one can dispute that African Americans' long but successful quest for civil rights stands as one of the defining elements in United States history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Origins of the African American Quest for Civil Rights 1 The Civil War and Emancipation 1 The Origins of Reconstruction 7 Radical Reconstruction 17 The End of Reconstruction 28 African American Responses to the End of Reconstruction 35 CHAPTER TWO: The New Black Leadership of the Post-Reconstruction Era, 1890-1910 41 Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching 41 Disfranchisement and the Rise of Jim Crow 46 The Age of Booker T. Washington 50 W.E.B. Du Bois and the Rise of the Radicals 65 CHAPTER THREE: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 1910-1930 74 The Great Migration 74 The Origins of the NAACP 78 African Americans and World War I 86 A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, and the New Black Politics of the 1920s 96 CHAPTER FOUR: Civil Rights in the New Deal Era, 1930-1945 114 The Scottsboro Case, African Americans, and the Communist Party 114 The New Generation of the NAACP 124 African Americans, the New Deal, and the Democratic Party 131 The National Negro Congress and the March on Washington Movement 147 Civil Rights during World War II 159 CHAPTER FIVE: A Shifting of the Tide: Civil Rights in Postwar America, 1945-1955 169 Black Resistance and Racial Liberation 169 The Journey of Reconciliation and the Origins of Nonviolent Direct Action 177 The Cold War, the NAACP, and the 1948 Election 180 Race, Culture, and Society in Postwar America 192 The Brown Decision 196 CHAPTER SIX: The Civil Rights Revolution Begins, 1955-1962 208 ...
