Book Review of The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954 - 1992 The Struggle for Black Equality is an outstanding history of the civil rights movement. The book recounts the growth of the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, through the Southern segregation of the 1960's, to predominant urban problems of the 1990's. The work covers important aspects of key leadership, founding of civil rights organizations, historic incidents, political …
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…utilized were those written by Rhoda Lois Blumberg. Sitkoff did not use footnotes in this works, however a bibliographical essay is provided. The author attempts to bring to life Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Bull Connor, George Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Emmet Till and many others. Through Sitkoff's eyes we relive the long and often terror filled struggle for equality. The work is a chronological informative summation stressing the significance of civil rights in American history.