The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for ChangeAn account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963. |
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... Horton.3 Horton , born in 1905 , came from a poor white working - class family in the small town of Savannah , Tennessee . According to Horton , " I was poor , we were sharecroppers , we worked in factories . I had to leave home when I ...
... Horton.3 Horton , born in 1905 , came from a poor white working - class family in the small town of Savannah , Tennessee . According to Horton , " I was poor , we were sharecroppers , we worked in factories . I had to leave home when I ...
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... Horton left New York to study for a year with Robert E. Park , a pioneering sociologist at the University of Chicago . While in Chicago Horton learned that folk schools had existed in Denmark since 1864. Late in 1931 he traveled to ...
... Horton left New York to study for a year with Robert E. Park , a pioneering sociologist at the University of Chicago . While in Chicago Horton learned that folk schools had existed in Denmark since 1864. Late in 1931 he traveled to ...
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... Horton interview . 33. Ibid . 34. Adams , " Highlander Folk School , " p . 512 . 35. Horton interview . 36. Clark interview . 37. Horton interview . 38. Ibid . 39. Hosea Williams interview , September 22 , 1978 , Atlanta . 40. Adams ...
... Horton interview . 33. Ibid . 34. Adams , " Highlander Folk School , " p . 512 . 35. Horton interview . 36. Clark interview . 37. Horton interview . 38. Ibid . 39. Hosea Williams interview , September 22 , 1978 , Atlanta . 40. Adams ...
Contents
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR | 40 |
The Decentralized Political | 77 |
Copyright | |
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Abernathy ACMHR activists activities affiliates Alabama Albany Albany movement Baker Baptist Church Baton Rouge became began Birmingham black church black community buses Carolina charismatic Citizenship Schools civil rights movement Clark collective behavior Committee confrontation Connor CORE CORE's Court demonstrations desegregation developed direct action domination E. D. Nixon economic Ella Baker financed Fred Shuttlesworth ganizations groups Highlander Horton Ibid important indigenous interview jail James Bevel Jemison Kelly Miller Smith King's large numbers Lawson Martin Luther King mass meetings mass movement McCain ment MLK:BU mobilization modern civil rights Montgomery bus boycott movement centers movement halfway houses NAACP Nashville Negro nonviolent organizational participants political president Press racial Reverend role SCEF SCLC SCLC leaders SCLC's segregation Simpkins sit-in movement Smiley SNCC social movements South Southern blacks Southern white strategy struggle tactics Tallahassee tion UCMI vote white power structure workshops wrote York