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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... leaders by bringing them directly into leadership positions while simultaneously organizing the black masses . They ... leaders and or- ganizations in the north . Men like W. E. B. DuBois , scholar and NAACP leader ; Lester Granger of ...
... leaders by bringing them directly into leadership positions while simultaneously organizing the black masses . They ... leaders and or- ganizations in the north . Men like W. E. B. DuBois , scholar and NAACP leader ; Lester Granger of ...
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... leaders who were involved in these various tension points in the South . . . . I discovered later , I think , that that person was Bayard Rustin . " ' 19 Ella Baker , one of the most significant and unheralded leaders of the civil ...
... leaders who were involved in these various tension points in the South . . . . I discovered later , I think , that that person was Bayard Rustin . " ' 19 Ella Baker , one of the most significant and unheralded leaders of the civil ...
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... Leadership is an important property of local movement centers . Pro- test leaders are not by - products of movements , nor is their behavior totally determined by structural imperatives . The behavior of leaders is voluntary to the ...
... Leadership is an important property of local movement centers . Pro- test leaders are not by - products of movements , nor is their behavior totally determined by structural imperatives . The behavior of leaders is voluntary to the ...
Contents
Domination Church and the NAACP | 1 |
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR 40 | 40 |
Copyright | |
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