In this excerpt from his new book, “Waging a Good War,” Tom Ricks explains why the fight for equality had to use military tactics to achieve its goals.
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency
Military historian Mark Grimsley makes the startling assertion that the American civil rights movement was an insurgency.
WWII Review: Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Dorie Miller is best known as a black navy cook at Pearl Harbor who saves his captain during the Japanese attack, but a new book reveals his full story
Tough Talk: Robert Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
Robert F. Kennedy asked black Americans for the truth. They told it. RFK didn’t like what he heard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: FBI’s Campaign to Discredit the Civil Rights Leader
After the March on Washington, the FBI launched a vicious campaign to utterly discredit Martin Luther King Jr.
President John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Quandary
President Kennedy told the nation on June 11, 1963: ‘We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities.’
From States’ Rights to Slavery: What Caused the American Civil War?
The original impetus of the Civil War was set in motion when a Dutch trader offloaded a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown, Va., in 1619. It took nearly 250 eventful years longer for it to boil into a war
States’ Rights & The Civil War
Facts, information and articles about States Rights, one of the causes of the civil […]
For Southern Antagonists in the Civil War, a Kindred Desire for Peace Goes Awry
Kentucky’s John Crittenden, Virginia’s John Robertson found common ground too late as the prospects for peace evaded in 1860-61.
In Patriotic Melodies in the Civil War North, “Freedom” Wasn’t Necessarily a Cry for African-American Emancipation
Songwriters such as George F. Root usually tailored their lyrics to themes of a still-united nation, with guaranteed liberty for all common folk.