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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... nonviolent approach for social change to the black masses . Until this bus boycott , most blacks were unfamiliar with the techniques and principles of nonviolent direct action . The Montgomery movement served as a training ground where ...
... nonviolent approach for social change to the black masses . Until this bus boycott , most blacks were unfamiliar with the techniques and principles of nonviolent direct action . The Montgomery movement served as a training ground where ...
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... nonviolent protest in India as well as America , was influential in per- suading E. D. Nixon and Mrs. Daisy Bates to explore nonviolent pro- test . Thus CORE and FOR were closely intertwined during the 1940s and 1950s . The two pacifist ...
... nonviolent protest in India as well as America , was influential in per- suading E. D. Nixon and Mrs. Daisy Bates to explore nonviolent pro- test . Thus CORE and FOR were closely intertwined during the 1940s and 1950s . The two pacifist ...
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... nonviolence , King usually addressed the crowd . He would assure his listeners that nonviolence was not a weak method and that " through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust ...
... nonviolence , King usually addressed the crowd . He would assure his listeners that nonviolence was not a weak method and that " through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust ...
Contents
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR | 40 |
The Decentralized Political | 77 |
Copyright | |
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