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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... Jemison threatened to have his business disrupted by some " young tough " blacks . In another incident , word circulated about a family comprising a mother , father , and nine children living in one 14 - by - 14 - foot room . Jemison ...
... Jemison threatened to have his business disrupted by some " young tough " blacks . In another incident , word circulated about a family comprising a mother , father , and nine children living in one 14 - by - 14 - foot room . Jemison ...
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... Jemison's congregation had given him $ 650 to cover ex- penses for a business trip . The Sunday before the boycott Jemison in- formed the congregation that he was canceling the trip because of the pending boycott . He then told the ...
... Jemison's congregation had given him $ 650 to cover ex- penses for a business trip . The Sunday before the boycott Jemison in- formed the congregation that he was canceling the trip because of the pending boycott . He then told the ...
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Black Communities Organizing for Change Aldon D. Morris. 4. Jemison interview . 5. New York Times , June 20 , 1953 . 6. Jemison interview . 7. Ibid . 8. Ibid . 9. Ibid . 10. Ibid . 11. Meier and Rudwick , Along the Color Line , p . 366 ...
Black Communities Organizing for Change Aldon D. Morris. 4. Jemison interview . 5. New York Times , June 20 , 1953 . 6. Jemison interview . 7. Ibid . 8. Ibid . 9. Ibid . 10. Ibid . 11. Meier and Rudwick , Along the Color Line , p . 366 ...
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