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We are seeking contributors for a work entitled The Long Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1980, in the Conflicts in American History series. The work is under contract with Bruccoli Clark Layman/Manly, Inc, and contributors will receive $250 for essay chapters that will consist of the following elements: 1. 2000-3000 word background essay introducing the conflict, the people involved, the nature of the conflict and its resolution. 2. A specific chronology of the conflict. 3. 10 historical documents both in facsimile and in reprinted text form, each with an objective head note (150-300 words) that introduces the source. 4. A list of recommended readings with a brief annotation. 5. Two illustrations that correlate to the conflict. Persons who are interested in contributing one or more of the following entries should contact Brian Johnson, bjohnson@claflin.edu, and Zoe Trodd, trodd@fas.harvard.edu (please send brief bio), as soon as possible to sign up. Completed chapters due June 1, 2007.
COLD WAR CONFLICT
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and “The Bomb”
McCarthyism
The Korean War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Reagan and the Rise of New Conservatism
THE CONFLICT OF THE VIETNAM WAR
From Eisenhower to Kennedy
Blood and Battles
Draft Resistance and Anti-war Protest
Reporting Vietnam
From Johnson to Nixon and American Withdrawal
RACIAL CONFLICT
Lynching and the White Supremacists
Civil Rights Protest in the South
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Non-violent Resistance
Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
The American Indian Movement (AIM) and Wounded Knee
GENDER AND SEXUALITY CONFLICT
Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Black and Chicana Feminism
The Stonewall Riots and the Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
Gay Liberation on the West Coast
Lesbian Protest
LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts
The Economic Opportunity Act and the “War on Poverty”
The Equal Rights Amendment
Native Nations Legislation
ARTISTIC CONFLICT
The Beats
Music and the Counterculture
The New Left and the Underground Press
The Black Arts Movement
Rap, Graffiti and the Birth of a Hip Hop Generation
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