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Students and Civil Rights in the 1960s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jack Weinberg
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The black civil rights movement of the early 1960s was a mass movement that used activist tactics, was committed to a philosophy of nonviolence, and sought racial integration and equality as its goal. By the middle of the decade, this movement had achieved a considerable measure of success. Race segregation in America, while not yet abolished, had been stripped of the institutional legitimacy it had previously enjoyed. In the process, America's culture and politics were transformed.

Type
Essay Review
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 213 - 224
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the History of Education Society 

References

1 Isserman, Maurice If I Had a Hammer—: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (New York, 1987), 187.Google Scholar

2 Heirich, Max The Spiral of Conflict: Berkeley, 1964 (New York, 1971), 85.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., 86, 87.Google Scholar