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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... become the leaders of the new mass movements . The newcomer status was important in another respect . A common practice of the local white power structures in the 1950s was to co - opt and control black leaders by giving them personal ...
... become the leaders of the new mass movements . The newcomer status was important in another respect . A common practice of the local white power structures in the 1950s was to co - opt and control black leaders by giving them personal ...
Page 109
... become directly involved in the voting movement . The SCLC leaders believed " if every Negro church or even the majority of them in the South were active members of the Southern Leadership Conference , the increase in registered voters ...
... become directly involved in the voting movement . The SCLC leaders believed " if every Negro church or even the majority of them in the South were active members of the Southern Leadership Conference , the increase in registered voters ...
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... become a large - scale organization since it entered the South in 1957. The sit - ins gave it a chance to become just that . CORE's field secretary , Gordon Carey , became involved with the North Carolina sit - ins in February 1960. By ...
... become a large - scale organization since it entered the South in 1957. The sit - ins gave it a chance to become just that . CORE's field secretary , Gordon Carey , became involved with the North Carolina sit - ins in February 1960. By ...
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