Synopsis
The Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement is an essential reference work for students and scholars of American history and the civil rights movement. It provides over three hundred concise descriptions of the important people, organizations, events, and the multitude of executive orders, legislative acts, and judicial decisions that played crucial roles in the historic transformation of American society after World War II. Luker includes a historical overview that offers an interpretation of the movement. He also examines the role of women in this movement and the role of four generations of black and white leaders in the cause of racial justice. Includes a chronology of the milestones of the movement and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
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About the Author
Ralph E. Luker is adjunct professor of history at Morehouse College. He has written several books including The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vols. 1-2 (1992,1994) which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Social Gospel in Black and White (1991), which won an Outstanding Book Award.
Reviews
This latest in Scarecrow's Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements begins with a chronology of the civil rights movement from 1941 through 1995. Unlike the Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (Greenwood, 1992) and The ABC-Clio Companion to the Civil Rights Movement (1993), this book focuses exclusively on the post^-World War II era. Biographies and entries on court cases make up the largest part of the book. The author has made a special effort to include biographies of women active in the movement who are not in the two works noted above. Events (march on Washington), organizations (Congress of Racial Equality), and other topics (sit-in movement) are also treated. An extensive bibliography is divided into primary and secondary sources. Luker is a historian of religion and is one of the editors of The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Greenwood and ABC-Clio titles include black-and-white photographs; this new book has no illustrations. The Greenwood title has further reading noted at the end of each entry rather than in a separate bibliography. There is unique material in this new book, and libraries with extensive collections in African American studies will want a copy. Most public and high-school libraries owning the Greenwood or ABC-Clio volumes will find their coverage adequate, since there is a great deal of overlap among these three books. Sandy Whiteley
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