Origins of the Civil Rights MovementsA “valuable, eye-opening work” (The Boston Globe) about the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, weary after a long day at work, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man…and ignited the explosion that was the civil rights movement in America. In this powerful saga, Morris tells the complete story behind the ten years that transformed America, tracing the essential role of the black community organizations that was the real power behind the civil rights movement. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty key leaders, original documents, and other moving firsthand material, he brings to life the people behind the scenes who led the fight to end segregation, providing a critical new understanding of the dynamics of social change. “An important addition to our knowledge of the strategies of social change for all oppressed peoples.” —Reverend Jesse Jackson “A benchmark study…setting the historical record straight.” —The New York Times Book Review |
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... ACMHR . Support from a large segment of the black ministers was often sporadic and at times nonexistent . The reason was that the Reverend J. L. Ware , head of the local Baptist Min- isters Conference , often opposed Shuttlesworth's ...
... ACMHR . Support from a large segment of the black ministers was often sporadic and at times nonexistent . The reason was that the Reverend J. L. Ware , head of the local Baptist Min- isters Conference , often opposed Shuttlesworth's ...
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... ACMHR , most of it on court litigation . Most of this has been contributed by the Negroes of Bir- mingham , many of whom make scarcely enough to live on . " 66 Writing about ACMHR finances somewhat later , Shuttlesworth explained : I ...
... ACMHR , most of it on court litigation . Most of this has been contributed by the Negroes of Bir- mingham , many of whom make scarcely enough to live on . " 66 Writing about ACMHR finances somewhat later , Shuttlesworth explained : I ...
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... ACMHR decided to ride the Birmingham buses on a desegre- gated basis immediately after the Supreme Court ruling was ... ACMHR was that you had to keep pushing , testing , and learning . On December 26 , 1956 , the group of 250 rode the ...
... ACMHR decided to ride the Birmingham buses on a desegre- gated basis immediately after the Supreme Court ruling was ... ACMHR was that you had to keep pushing , testing , and learning . On December 26 , 1956 , the group of 250 rode the ...
Contents
Domination Church and the NAACP | 1 |
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR | 40 |
Copyright | |
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