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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... jail , meager re- sources , and a recalcitrant white power structure , the movement reached a critical impasse . Anderson summed up the problems : We were in a situation where we had several hundred people in jail , no bond money ...
... jail , meager re- sources , and a recalcitrant white power structure , the movement reached a critical impasse . Anderson summed up the problems : We were in a situation where we had several hundred people in jail , no bond money ...
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... jail the first time , they " left no instructions , we left nobody in charge . . . we had no plans . We had not even planned another mass meeting . " 84 Following the sit - ins and Freedom Rides large numbers of white students in the ...
... jail the first time , they " left no instructions , we left nobody in charge . . . we had no plans . We had not even planned another mass meeting . " 84 Following the sit - ins and Freedom Rides large numbers of white students in the ...
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... jail by not par- ticipating in street demonstrations . He had stayed out of jail to com- plete " the job of unifying the Negro community " .141 Strategically , King decided that he would go to jail on Good Friday while violating the ...
... jail by not par- ticipating in street demonstrations . He had stayed out of jail to com- plete " the job of unifying the Negro community " .141 Strategically , King decided that he would go to jail on Good Friday while violating 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