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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... planned . With its aim to eradicate all forms of segregation and discrim- ination , the community directed its energies and protests at all aspects of domination . The efforts became so diffuse that they lost their effec- tiveness ...
... planned . With its aim to eradicate all forms of segregation and discrim- ination , the community directed its energies and protests at all aspects of domination . The efforts became so diffuse that they lost their effec- tiveness ...
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... planned the confrontation , it was critical . King wrote : We believed that while a campaign in Birmingham would surely be the toughest fight of our civil - rights careers , it could , if successful , break the back of segregation all ...
... planned the confrontation , it was critical . King wrote : We believed that while a campaign in Birmingham would surely be the toughest fight of our civil - rights careers , it could , if successful , break the back of segregation all ...
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... Planned , deliberate civil disobedience had been discussed as far back as the meeting at Harry Belafonte's apartment in March . There , in consultation with some of the closest friends of the movement , we had decided that if an ...
... Planned , deliberate civil disobedience had been discussed as far back as the meeting at Harry Belafonte's apartment in March . There , in consultation with some of the closest friends of the movement , we had decided that if an ...
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