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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Page 192
... activists as Floyd McKissick , Daisy Bates , Ronald Wal- ters , Hosea Williams , Barbara Posey , and Clara Luper , who thought of themselves as a distinct group because the national NAACP was usu- ally disapproving or at best ambivalent ...
... activists as Floyd McKissick , Daisy Bates , Ronald Wal- ters , Hosea Williams , Barbara Posey , and Clara Luper , who thought of themselves as a distinct group because the national NAACP was usu- ally disapproving or at best ambivalent ...
Page 212
... Activists were stationed downtown to ensure that blacks received the word not to shop . According to Reverend Smith , shortly after the boy- cott was initiated , merchants began coming to his home wanting to talk . Diane Nash Bevel ...
... Activists were stationed downtown to ensure that blacks received the word not to shop . According to Reverend Smith , shortly after the boy- cott was initiated , merchants began coming to his home wanting to talk . Diane Nash Bevel ...
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... activists were sent to organize nonviolent projects in specific communities in Mississippi and Georgia.1 Communities such as McComb , Mississippi , and Al- bany , Georgia , were extremely dangerous places in which to organize protest ...
... activists were sent to organize nonviolent projects in specific communities in Mississippi and Georgia.1 Communities such as McComb , Mississippi , and Al- bany , Georgia , were extremely dangerous places in which to organize protest ...
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