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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Page 192
... activists as Floyd McKissick , Daisy Bates , Ronald Wal- ters , Hosea Williams , Barbara Posey , and Clara Luper , who thought of themselves as a distinct group because the national NAACP was usu- ally disapproving or at best ambivalent ...
... activists as Floyd McKissick , Daisy Bates , Ronald Wal- ters , Hosea Williams , Barbara Posey , and Clara Luper , who thought of themselves as a distinct group because the national NAACP was usu- ally disapproving or at best ambivalent ...
Page 234
... activists were sent to organize nonviolent projects in specific communities in Mississippi and Georgia.1 Communities such as McComb , Mississippi , and Al- bany , Georgia , were extremely dangerous places in which to organize protest ...
... activists were sent to organize nonviolent projects in specific communities in Mississippi and Georgia.1 Communities such as McComb , Mississippi , and Al- bany , Georgia , were extremely dangerous places in which to organize protest ...
Page 301
... activists mobilized the community behind CORE's direct action projects . Indeed , the response of people such as Steele , Speed , and others to CORE suggest that these activists firmly believed in direct action . For this study I ...
... activists mobilized the community behind CORE's direct action projects . Indeed , the response of people such as Steele , Speed , and others to CORE suggest that these activists firmly believed in direct action . For this study I ...
Contents
Domination Church and the NAACP | 1 |
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR 40 | 40 |
Copyright | |
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