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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... racial integration and the overthrow of racial domination , they had to act as if they accepted discrimination and racial segregation or lose their jobs . The first rule of survival was to avoid association with integration - minded ...
... racial integration and the overthrow of racial domination , they had to act as if they accepted discrimination and racial segregation or lose their jobs . The first rule of survival was to avoid association with integration - minded ...
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... racial caste system of the South . But its as- sertiveness had to be established while maintaining a harmonious relationship with the NAACP . It did so by challenging NAACP to ac- cept direct action as a useful approach . At the Prayer ...
... racial caste system of the South . But its as- sertiveness had to be established while maintaining a harmonious relationship with the NAACP . It did so by challenging NAACP to ac- cept direct action as a useful approach . At the Prayer ...
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... racial bickering . By 1964 so much racial fighting had occurred in CORE that Farmer concluded : " There are many Negroes who will not work with an interracial organization be- cause of their suspicion of whites .... White liberals must ...
... racial bickering . By 1964 so much racial fighting had occurred in CORE that Farmer concluded : " There are many Negroes who will not work with an interracial organization be- cause of their suspicion of whites .... White liberals must ...
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