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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... demonstrations were going on in Nashville . There were some high school students who wanted to participate and wanted to do something , ' cause we thought it would be fun if for no other reason . We didn't have any politics , but we ...
... demonstrations were going on in Nashville . There were some high school students who wanted to participate and wanted to do something , ' cause we thought it would be fun if for no other reason . We didn't have any politics , but we ...
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... demonstrations , was the combination that would force racist white power structures across the South to yield to the demands of the move- ment . The SCLC leaders decided that if the movement were to be suc- cessful in Birmingham it ...
... demonstrations , was the combination that would force racist white power structures across the South to yield to the demands of the move- ment . The SCLC leaders decided that if the movement were to be suc- cessful in Birmingham it ...
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... demonstrations and who didn't want to be a part of the demonstrations in the beginning would at least announce the boycott in their churches . We produced about 50,000 handbills every week and over the weekend , through the churches and ...
... demonstrations and who didn't want to be a part of the demonstrations in the beginning would at least announce the boycott in their churches . We produced about 50,000 handbills every week and over the weekend , through the churches and ...
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