12. The Civil Rights Movement
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. What were the conditions necessary for the Civil Rights movement to be successful?
2. What were the aims of the movement?
3. How important was Martin Luther King to the success of the movement?
Required Reading
Michael J. Klarman, "How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis", Journal of American History Vol. 81, No. 1. (Jun., 1994), pp. 81-118 (JSTOR)
John A. Kirk, "New Directions" in Martin Luther King Jr (Longman, 2005), pp. 152-181

Further Reading
Adam Fairclough, "The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1939-54" in The making of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, Ward & Badger, eds, (Macmillan, 1996), pp. 15-28
David Garrow, "Martin Luther King Jr and the Spirit of Leadership", JAH 74 (1987-8) pp. 438-47
Gary Gerstle. "Race and the Myth of the Liberal Consensus", Journal of American History 82 (Sept 1995), pp. 579-586
Michael J. Klarman, "Brown and the Civil Rights Movement" in From Jim Crow to civil rights: the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 344-442
Primary Documents
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, 1963
John F. Kennedy's First Innaugural Address