14. May 5: Civil Rights and Backlash

Readings:

Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” Journal of American History (March 2005)

Supplemental Readings:

Tom Englehardt, The End of Victory Culture

Shannon - John D’Emilio, Sexual politics, sexual communities : the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970, 1983, 1998

Bailey - John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, 1994

William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights, 1980

Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home, 1987

Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, 1979

Jim - Christian Appy, Working-Class War: American combat soldiers and Vietnam, 1993

Allen Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s, 1984

Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion, 1976

Thomas and Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxeson American Politics, 1991

Resources:

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