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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... vote.3 The SCLC leadership reasoned that movements could be organized around voting for two reasons : ( 1 ) Extraneous issues such as " race - mixing " and the separate- but - equal doctrine were irrelevant to the vote , and ( 2 ) no ...
... vote.3 The SCLC leadership reasoned that movements could be organized around voting for two reasons : ( 1 ) Extraneous issues such as " race - mixing " and the separate- but - equal doctrine were irrelevant to the vote , and ( 2 ) no ...
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... vote . Speaking before a Senate subcommittee in 1957 , Mr. Courts stated : Two hours before he ( the Rev. George W. Lee ) was killed , he called me over to his store and he showed me a letter that ... was sticking in his screen door ...
... vote . Speaking before a Senate subcommittee in 1957 , Mr. Courts stated : Two hours before he ( the Rev. George W. Lee ) was killed , he called me over to his store and he showed me a letter that ... was sticking in his screen door ...
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... voting . Thus the movement was to be " educational in the sense that it would have to establish means through which Negro masses could be aroused and made aware of the importance of the vote . " 28 This " consciousness raising " was to ...
... voting . Thus the movement was to be " educational in the sense that it would have to establish means through which Negro masses could be aroused and made aware of the importance of the vote . " 28 This " consciousness raising " was to ...
Contents
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR | 40 |
The Decentralized Political | 77 |
Copyright | |
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