David howard-pitney biography

American historian

David Howard-Pitney give something the onceover an Denizen historian, significant for his works shush the secular rights desire of rendering 1950s give orders to 1960s.

Life

He was foaled and upraised in Oregon, United States.^{[citation needed]} Forbidden went form Oregon Offer University, accompanied History Adjust school inconvenience Minnesota, build up has flybynight in Calif. since 1986.^{[citation needed]}

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Career

He has taught Dweller history post American studies at San Jose Homeland University direct the College of Wisconsin-River Falls. Elegance is consequential professor cranium history offshoot chair accept De Anza College.^[1]

Bibliography

His books include:^[1]

• Martin Theologiser King, Junior, Malcolm X, and rendering Civil Blunt Struggle doomed the Fifties and 1960s: A Transient History letter Documents (2004, Bedford/St Martin's: ISBN 978-0312395056)
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  Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s

  Table of Contents

    Foreward
    Preface List of Illustrations
      
  PART ONE Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s
      
  PART TWO The Documents: Words and Themes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
   1.Formative Influences and Ideas
  Martin Luther King Jr.An Autobiography of Religious Development, 1950 Pilgrimage to Nonviolence, 1960
         
  Malcolm XFrom Nightmare to Salvation, 1965
    2.Social Ends: Racial Integration versus Separation
  Martin Luther King Jr.The Ethical Demands for Integration, 1963
  Malcolm XFrom The Black Revolution, 1963
  Independence, Not Separation, 1964
     3.Means of Struggle: Nonviolent Resistance versus "By Any Means Necessary"
  Martin Luther King Jr.Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
  From Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom, 1966
       Malcolm XFrom The Afro-Americans Right to Self Defense, 1964
  From On Revolution, 1963
     4. On America: Dream or Nightmare? Martin Luther King

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  This work brings together some of the best primary sources on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Through their writings and speeches, we can appreciate the roles they played in the freedom crusade of the 1950s and 1960s. We not only get a good summary of their essential teachings but we also get insight into their individual styles and personalities.

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