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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... jail , meager re- sources , and a recalcitrant white power structure , the movement reached a critical impasse . Anderson summed up the problems : We were in a situation where we had several hundred people in jail , no bond money ...
... jail , meager re- sources , and a recalcitrant white power structure , the movement reached a critical impasse . Anderson summed up the problems : We were in a situation where we had several hundred people in jail , no bond money ...
Page 247
... jail until the expiration of the forty - five - day sentence . > Within a couple of days Dr. King was mysteriously bailed out of jail , supposedly by a well - dressed black man . The attorney C. B. King re- ported discovering recently ...
... jail until the expiration of the forty - five - day sentence . > Within a couple of days Dr. King was mysteriously bailed out of jail , supposedly by a well - dressed black man . The attorney C. B. King re- ported discovering recently ...
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... jail the first time , they " left no instructions , we left nobody in charge ... we had no plans . We had not even planned another mass meeting . " 84 Following the sit - ins and Freedom Rides large numbers of white students in the ...
... jail the first time , they " left no instructions , we left nobody in charge ... we had no plans . We had not even planned another mass meeting . " 84 Following the sit - ins and Freedom Rides large numbers of white students in the ...
Contents
Domination Church and the NAACP | 1 |
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR 40 | 40 |
Copyright | |
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