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An established introductory textbook that provides students with a compelling overview of the growth of the mass movement from its origins after the Second World War to the destruction of segregated society, before charting the movement´s path through the twentieth century up to the present day.

This is an ideal core text for modules on Civil Rights History or American History since 1945 - or a supplementary text for broader modules on American History, African-American History or Modern US Politics - which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate History, Politics or American Studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying the Civil Rights Movement for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in American History, US Politics or American Studies.

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Preface to the Third Edition.- Acknowledgements.- Glossary.- List of Acronyms.- Introduction.- 1. Transformation of Politics: Civil Rights 1948-58.- 2. Grass-Roots Struggle in the South.- 3. The Struggle Intensifies: JFK and a New Frontier?.- 4. Triumphs and Tragedies: LBJ, The Great Society and the Limits of Liberalism.- 5. The New Right and Civil Rights.- 6. Transformation: A New South?.- 7. Willie Horton and the Southern Strategy: Bush Sr.- 8. A Third Way from Hope? Bill Clinton.- 9. 1876 and All That: George W. Bush.- 10. ´Post-Racial´ America? Barack Obama.- Epilogue: The Great Divide: The Election of 2016.- Bibliography.- Index.

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William T. Martin Riches was formerly Senior Lecturer and Convenor of American Studies at the University of Ulster, UK.

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