Afro-Am Studies Professor Traci Parker Co-Authors New Reader on Civil Rights

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On Friday, April 28, UMass Press is set to publish “The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice,” from Traci Parker, associate professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass, and Marcia Walker-McWilliams, executive director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.

Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black Lives Matter protests of today, this expansive volume brings together first-person accounts, political documents and speeches, and historical photographs from each region of the country.

Designed for use in courses and engaging for general readers, this new compilation is the most diverse, most inclusive, and most comprehensive resource available for teaching and learning about the civil rights movement. With chronological and geographical depth, “The New Civil Rights Movement Reader” addresses a range of key topics, including youth activism, regional and local freedom struggles, voting rights, economic inequality, gender, sexuality and culture, and the movement’s global reach.

Parker and Walker-McWilliams address a range of key topics, including youth activism, regional and local freedom struggles, voting rights, economic inequality, gender, sexuality and culture, and the movement’s global reach.