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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... boycott differed from past protests in Baton Rouge , which had been initiated by the NAACP and had attempted to work through the courts . The Baton Rouge boycott was a mass , church - based , direct - action movement guided by a new ...
... boycott differed from past protests in Baton Rouge , which had been initiated by the NAACP and had attempted to work through the courts . The Baton Rouge boycott was a mass , church - based , direct - action movement guided by a new ...
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... boycott . The boycott came about . We don't know how it happened . I tell you there are a lot of little mystical elements in there , little spots that defy ra- tional explanation . . . . Now , we promoted it . We adopted it . But we did ...
... boycott . The boycott came about . We don't know how it happened . I tell you there are a lot of little mystical elements in there , little spots that defy ra- tional explanation . . . . Now , we promoted it . We adopted it . But we did ...
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... boycott , and they also boycotted downtown department stores . Yet it seems that poor planning decreased the ef- fectiveness of the economic boycott as well . David Lewis wrote : The boycott of department stores received the support of ...
... boycott , and they also boycotted downtown department stores . Yet it seems that poor planning decreased the ef- fectiveness of the economic boycott as well . David Lewis wrote : The boycott of department stores received the support of ...
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