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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... political role in social affairs of blacks : As a result of the elimination of Negroes from the political life of the American community , the Negro Church became the arena of their political activities . The church was the main area of ...
... political role in social affairs of blacks : As a result of the elimination of Negroes from the political life of the American community , the Negro Church became the arena of their political activities . The church was the main area of ...
Page 61
... political astuteness of a min- ister was put to test . Such was the vantage point from which " Daddy ” King operated . Martin Luther King , Jr. , grew up in this political church environ- ment and internalized its ways as he matured ...
... political astuteness of a min- ister was put to test . Such was the vantage point from which " Daddy ” King operated . Martin Luther King , Jr. , grew up in this political church environ- ment and internalized its ways as he matured ...
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... political arena through the politics of protest . Prior to the movement the system of segregation forced blacks to live in a separate and limited world characterized by poverty , racial discrimination , powerlessness , symbolic ...
... political arena through the politics of protest . Prior to the movement the system of segregation forced blacks to live in a separate and limited world characterized by poverty , racial discrimination , powerlessness , symbolic ...
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