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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... response should be or whether any response was nec- essary . Reverend Shuttlesworth , minister of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church and former membership chairman of the outlawed NAACP , decided it was time to organize a direct action ...
... response should be or whether any response was nec- essary . Reverend Shuttlesworth , minister of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church and former membership chairman of the outlawed NAACP , decided it was time to organize a direct action ...
Page 246
... response to mounting pressure , members of Albany's white power structure decided to maneuver King out of the city by agreeing to a " truce , " which they had no intention of honoring . City officials agreed ( 1 ) to return all bond ...
... response to mounting pressure , members of Albany's white power structure decided to maneuver King out of the city by agreeing to a " truce , " which they had no intention of honoring . City officials agreed ( 1 ) to return all bond ...
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... Response , " pp . 174-75 , and other studies have shown that in the early to mid - 1950s some Southern cities hired small numbers ( usually two or three ) of black policemen . These policemen were usually hired in response to black ...
... Response , " pp . 174-75 , and other studies have shown that in the early to mid - 1950s some Southern cities hired small numbers ( usually two or three ) of black policemen . These policemen were usually hired in response to black ...
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