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This book collects primary documents on civil rights from the 1950s up to the very early 1990s. The editors have done a really good job of selecting relevant and interesting documents. I've used this for my classes and have found it to be a valuable resource. I recommend it for anyone who is interested in the civil rights movement.
A large amount of reading for one semester but through this book I learned many things that I didn't know about the civil rights movement.
Wonderful documents of the civil rights and black power movement. Like most history, the voices of women, queer folks, and other oppressed identities are scarce in comparison to the perspectives of straight cismen.
Amazing reading about these stories and seeing/hearing about the same items taking place today.
This books talks about how Black people keep their eye on the prizeA very good telling of recent Black history
Rarely do we get a readable version of primary documents, especially such a compendium as this, charting one of the most important twoscore years of our country's history. The most distressing aspect of this book, for me, is that the events recounted, and the hopes dashed and raised by speaker after speaker, seemed all too contemporary, and not to have ended 30 years ago. I kept asking myself: why is 2020 so much like 1980, and 1960? Shame, America, shame. We, who have much, will be required to
A very interesting, in depth look at the Civil Rights movement with a lot of primary source documents. The only drawback is the way it is arranged. It could be more clearly laid out.
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle is an anthology of a plethora of speeches, essays, various documents, and firsthand accounts collected and edited by the team of Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine. It is a collection of documents from firsthand accounts, which spans the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.For the most part, I rather like most if not...
A great collection of civil rights speeches and documents. This book became a godsend during the writing of a recent (and very large) college paper of mine. I especially found the MLK speeches useful and moving, and I had to try very hard to only research, as I found myself reading through the book for hours. Very good resource and fun to read.
This is a very good collection of civil rights era primary sources and articles. One of my professors, Gerald Gill, wrote a couple of the articles. He was a thoughtful historian who knew everything there was to know about American history during this period.
A superb book which through a series of documents brings to life the Civil Rights movement as no ordinary text book can. An engrossing and life affirming read.
essential historical & legal background. also a classroom sourcebook.for those in debate & speech, excellent source for quotations & value props.
