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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... meeting at that particular time . They would bring that money from those churches to the mass meeting . Every church at that particular time where we were holding the meetings were the largest churches we had here . They would be ...
... meeting at that particular time . They would bring that money from those churches to the mass meeting . Every church at that particular time where we were holding the meetings were the largest churches we had here . They would be ...
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... meetings at various churches every Mon- day night . Shuttlesworth recalls that " when things were really hot , we would hold mass meetings every night . " 65 The mass meetings were packed with community folk who came out to fight ...
... meetings at various churches every Mon- day night . Shuttlesworth recalls that " when things were really hot , we would hold mass meetings every night . " 65 The mass meetings were packed with community folk who came out to fight ...
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... meetings ministers from across the city turned over the money that their respective churches had donated to the movement . Thousands of dollars were collected at the mass meetings , while black adults , ministers , and students sang ...
... meetings ministers from across the city turned over the money that their respective churches had donated to the movement . Thousands of dollars were collected at the mass meetings , while black adults , ministers , and students sang ...
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