A Book Review: The Civil Rights Movement

A Book Review: The Civil Rights Movement

Analysis Of The Authors' Content.

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April 23, 2011

Table Of Contents.

1.0 Introduction... 3

2.0 Content Analysis.................................................................3-6

3.0. Conclusion...........................................................................6

4.0 Works Cited.........................................................................7

1.0 Introduction.

The Civil Rights Movement is a one-stop study guide for secondary school and college attending students, the author utilizes simplified language to bring forth a clear analysis of past struggles to gain liberties and an all set reference section. Peter Levy, ingeniously combine narrative, investigative and descriptive essays to assess and illuminate key issues allied with the civil rights insurgency. Further, the writer makes substantial use of profiles, biographies and also chronologies of past events to give depth and credibility to his work. His massive collection of work is amassed from different authors to bring forth diversity and objectivity in the effort to fill the existing rift the in modern literature. Moreover, Levy who is highly commended for the documentary on History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement offers an exceptional introduction into the civil right movement, its developmental phases and the leaders who started it to achieve the twenty first century agenda. There are mainly five major essays used to analyze the crucial aspects of the civil right movement, while the sixth and final essay evaluates and commends the heritage of the crucial movement which changed the moral perceptions of the society.

2.0 Content Analysis

Levy, writes this guide drawing heavily from recent literature to bring in relevant and unsullied information to the learners. The first six chapters of his work delve into examining and understanding the status of African Americans prior to the dawn of the liberating movement. From that backdrop, he pursues the advent of events in the past which stirred the dawn of the civil rights movements. Through the various conducted researches he is able to pin point the dissenters who were no longer able to conform to the overbearing scepter of colonial masters who ruled and oppressed the African Americans. The series of stories relayed probe deeper into the cause and origin of these civil movements which wrought forth change and emancipation for the men of color, giving the voiceless a voice.

Levy addresses Mississippi's civil right upsurge bringing out the underpinning challenge that probed men and women to fight in protest. The African Americans were mistreated and ignored by the federal government; they were both segregated and allocated to live in less developed areas (Levy, 181).This compelled them to arise in protest in pursuit of individual rights and autonomy. Every facet of civil rights mutiny is given a keen interest by the numerous contributors towards this volume, ranging from the specific individuals such as Martin Luther king Junior, Malcolm X and other vibrant proponents to the movements such as Bayard Rustin (Levy,8).

The essays that Levy has used in his guide are clear tinged with an appeal which engages the reader; they capture the divergence and drama embedded in the civil rights movements. Following a narrative indication of the civil rights movements the essays show major similarities as they elucidate on the origin of civil right movements. Kasher (1998) takes us back to the days when segregations were overtly done against different races (82). As the nation celebrated its affluence, Africana Americans languished in poverty while the government spent its resources revamping the white middle class. The African Americans were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, job insecurity, meager earning