Summary Of Give Me Liberty By Eric Foner

During the 1960’s, the U.S. had a major breakthrough on the topic of Civil Rights. In the U.S., and many other countries, there has always been discrimination among races. Whether that discrimination was between whites and blacks, whites and latinos, or whites and asians. This discrimination was something that many people were not okay with and the citizens of the U.S. wanted to do something about it. This led to a movement called the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement’s goal was to eliminate racial or gender discrimination in order to fulfill the line in the Declaration of Independence (US 1776) that states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”.

The book, Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner, is a college level history text book that, in chapter 25, goes into detail about the Civil Rights Movement. Likewise, the article Part of the Whole: The Interdependence of the Civil Rights Movement and Other Social Movements. by Judith Rollins also talks in length about the civil rights movement. Although the book, Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner, and the article, Part of the Whole: The Interdependence of the Civil Rights Movement and Other Social Movements. by Judith Rollins, both talk in detail about the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s, these two secondary sources have differences in their content, differences in the emphasization on the topic at hand, as well as differing styles of