Essay
On Friday March 22nd, I accessed the document “Civil Rights Activism in 1960s Virgina” through the Excelsior College Library digital database. The document was published by The Journal of Black Studies Vol. 38, No.2, and was dated Nov. 2007. The publication is put out by Sage Publications, Inc.
The sixteen-page document contained a dense amount of in-text citations and three pages of cited works. The majority of the sources contained dated texts, journal, organizational press releases, articles and testimony dated near the time the activism, which it explored, was taking place. Many of the sources, were text written by the subjects whom were discussed and analyzed in the journal article. As an example, one of the sourced cited a press release made by the NAACP about Virginias who were urged to stay out of stores that discriminated. The cited works included a broad range of people on different level of civil rights activism, from biographies of activists, to newspaper articles at the time, to individual accounts.
The narrative recounts this individual accounts and build an overall and marco view of activism as a whole, which follows from the thesis it presents. Dated 2007, makes it a fairly recent account, and which carries with it only the inevitable advantage of needing second hand accounts to summarize something that was (likely) not experience firsthand by the author.
Giving only that small drawback, I consider this to be a rather reliable source for gaining perspective on the different levels of Civil Rights activism in one particular region of the 60s.
Reference
Hall, Simon. "Civil Rights Activism in 1960s VIrgina." Journal of Black Studies (2007): n. pag. Excelsior Library. Web.
