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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... masses because they themselves were mass - based organizations that had grown directly out of a mass - based institution , the black church . It is almost inconceivable to picture an alternative route to mass mobilization in these ...
... masses because they themselves were mass - based organizations that had grown directly out of a mass - based institution , the black church . It is almost inconceivable to picture an alternative route to mass mobilization in these ...
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... mass emotionalism , and mass enthusiasm in consequence of being church- related protest organizations . The minister of the black church is often a charismatic personality and this certainly held true for the leaders of the MIA , ICC ...
... mass emotionalism , and mass enthusiasm in consequence of being church- related protest organizations . The minister of the black church is often a charismatic personality and this certainly held true for the leaders of the MIA , ICC ...
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... mass mobili- zation was attained through the churches and especially the grassroots mass meetings . Reverend Steele recalls that " we held two mass meet- ings a week , " but since " no church in town could accommodate the people we ...
... mass mobili- zation was attained through the churches and especially the grassroots mass meetings . Reverend Steele recalls that " we held two mass meet- ings a week , " but since " no church in town could accommodate the people we ...
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