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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Page 123
... involvement . Dr. King was well aware that the NAACP's legal approach discouraged mass participation when he wrote , " when legal contests were the sole form of activity . . . the ordinary Negro was involved as a passive spec- tator ...
... involvement . Dr. King was well aware that the NAACP's legal approach discouraged mass participation when he wrote , " when legal contests were the sole form of activity . . . the ordinary Negro was involved as a passive spec- tator ...
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... involved in providing le- gal services and financing . After the Freedom Rides small teams of SNCC activists were ... involved in doing it , rather than sitting back waiting till the field secretaries of an organization or a lawyer does ...
... involved in providing le- gal services and financing . After the Freedom Rides small teams of SNCC activists were ... involved in doing it , rather than sitting back waiting till the field secretaries of an organization or a lawyer does ...
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... involved , you know , in their own minds and real- izing that , hey , I don't have to leave the running of the town and that of the education system to the white folks downtown , that I can raise questions , I can be involved . " 31 She ...
... involved , you know , in their own minds and real- izing that , hey , I don't have to leave the running of the town and that of the education system to the white folks downtown , that I can raise questions , I can be involved . " 31 She ...
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