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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... segregation that denied blacks personal freedoms routinely en- joyed by whites . Segregation was an arrangement that set blacks off from the rest of humanity and labeled them as an inferior race . Blacks were forced to use different ...
... segregation that denied blacks personal freedoms routinely en- joyed by whites . Segregation was an arrangement that set blacks off from the rest of humanity and labeled them as an inferior race . Blacks were forced to use different ...
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... segregation . Black males were therefore advised to stare downward when passing a white woman so that she would have no excuse to accuse him of rape and have his life snatched away . Indeed , segregation was a personal form of ...
... segregation . Black males were therefore advised to stare downward when passing a white woman so that she would have no excuse to accuse him of rape and have his life snatched away . Indeed , segregation was a personal form of ...
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... segregation ; disfranchisement at the polls ; segregation of public schools ; and segregation at swimming pools , libraries , and retail stores . In Shuttlesworth's words , " I was trying to tear the system down . Out to kill 70 THE ...
... segregation ; disfranchisement at the polls ; segregation of public schools ; and segregation at swimming pools , libraries , and retail stores . In Shuttlesworth's words , " I was trying to tear the system down . Out to kill 70 THE ...
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