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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... direct action . During the civil rights movement direct action referred to a particular belief held by movement partici- pants and to a whole battery of acts and techniques designed to cause disruption . In Montgomery , Tallahassee ...
... direct action . During the civil rights movement direct action referred to a particular belief held by movement partici- pants and to a whole battery of acts and techniques designed to cause disruption . In Montgomery , Tallahassee ...
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... direct action.12 The SCLC's strategy advocated a new method of mass protest . The mass movements that gave rise to the SCLC stood as proof that masses could be organized for collective protest through the churches . Thus the SCLC was ...
... direct action.12 The SCLC's strategy advocated a new method of mass protest . The mass movements that gave rise to the SCLC stood as proof that masses could be organized for collective protest through the churches . Thus the SCLC was ...
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... direct action organizations . From interviews with participants in the early sit - ins and from published works , I found that civil rights organizations initiated sit - ins in fifteen of the sixteen cities I have ... Direct Action 189.
... direct action organizations . From interviews with participants in the early sit - ins and from published works , I found that civil rights organizations initiated sit - ins in fifteen of the sixteen cities I have ... Direct Action 189.
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