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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... ( UCMI ) was organized in Shreve- port , Louisiana , in late 1956 as a movement of ministers . In March 1956 the Attorney General of Louisiana took the NAACP to court with the demand that the organization submit its membership lists to ...
... ( UCMI ) was organized in Shreve- port , Louisiana , in late 1956 as a movement of ministers . In March 1956 the Attorney General of Louisiana took the NAACP to court with the demand that the organization submit its membership lists to ...
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... UCMI , teachers and any others in the pay of state or parish ( county ) governments , if they in- volved themselves in protest or the NAACP , " were fired from their par- ticular positions . " For that reason , the UCMI " was set up ...
... UCMI , teachers and any others in the pay of state or parish ( county ) governments , if they in- volved themselves in protest or the NAACP , " were fired from their par- ticular positions . " For that reason , the UCMI " was set up ...
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... UCMI served it well . When UCMI officials or- ganized its bus desegregation project , they knew that a number of the people participating in the activities of the UCMI were police inform- ers . President Simpkins publicly announced ...
... UCMI served it well . When UCMI officials or- ganized its bus desegregation project , they knew that a number of the people participating in the activities of the UCMI were police inform- ers . President Simpkins publicly announced ...
Contents
Domination Church and the NAACP | 1 |
Beginnings and Confrontations | 17 |
MIA ICC and ACMHR | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Abernathy ACMHR activists activities affiliates Alabama Albany Albany movement Baker Baptist Church Baton Rouge became began Birmingham black church black community buses Carolina charismatic Citizenship Schools civil rights movement collective behavior Committee confrontation Connor coordinated CORE CORE's Court demonstrations desegregation developed direct action domination E. D. Nixon economic Ella Baker financed Fred Shuttlesworth ganizations groups Highlander Horton Ibid important indigenous interview jail James Bevel Jemison Kelly Miller Smith King's large numbers Lawson Martin Luther King mass meetings mass movement McCain ment MLK:BU mobilization modern civil rights Montgomery bus boycott movement centers movement halfway houses NAACP Nashville Negro nonviolent organizational participants political president racial Reverend role SCEF SCLC SCLC leaders SCLC's segregation Simpkins sit-in movement Smiley SNCC social movements South Southern blacks Southern white strategy struggle tactics Tallahassee tion UCMI vote white power structure workshops wrote Wyatt Walker York