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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... force that devel- oped the infrastructure of the civil rights movement and that it func- tioned as the decentralized arm of the black church . Scholars of social movements have been concerned with the im- portant issue of how movements ...
... force that devel- oped the infrastructure of the civil rights movement and that it func- tioned as the decentralized arm of the black church . Scholars of social movements have been concerned with the im- portant issue of how movements ...
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... force capable of liberating blacks was the blacks themselves rather than the courts , Congress , or the executive branch of government . Actions by those external groups were thought to be effective only in the context of a mass ...
... force capable of liberating blacks was the blacks themselves rather than the courts , Congress , or the executive branch of government . Actions by those external groups were thought to be effective only in the context of a mass ...
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... force the federal government to take a firm stand against racial domination . Most writers fail to emphasize the ... forces in motion to change the entire course of the drive for free- dom and justice . Because we were convinced of the ...
... force the federal government to take a firm stand against racial domination . Most writers fail to emphasize the ... forces in motion to change the entire course of the drive for free- dom and justice . Because we were convinced of the ...
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