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Black/White Race Relations in the 20th Century

The nature of race relations in U.S. history is a complex topic. This essay will discuss the nature of race relations in the 20th century, using blackwhite relations as a case study. Instead of looking back to the colonial period, the 1800s, and even the early 20th century, it will concentrate on the black civil rights movement from 1945 to the present.

Material to be used in the essay will be a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1 Alex Haleys's rendition on the life of Malcolm X,2 an epic of blackwhite relations within the context of four families in the late 20th century,3 and the story of a local segment of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama.4. The essay will be divided into six major sections; each section will compare and contrast the different interpretations of each author. The sections will include: an overview of race relations in the 20th century, the changing features of race relations, the principal causes of the civil rights "revolution" in the 1950s and 1960s, comments on the

1 Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound  The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., (New York: New American Library, 1982).

2 Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964).

3 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground  A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, (New York: Vintage Books, 1986).

4 Robert J. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind  The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, (New York: Vintage Books, 1985). various successes of the civil rights movement, some of the failures in the struggle for civil rights, and comments on the future for blackwhite relations in the United States.

The nature of race relations between blacks and whites has its roots in the conflicts of the Old South, in particular those engendered during the reconstruction period. After the Civil War many whites felt threatened by the emancipation of the slaves. It was this insecurity which led t...

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