Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
A “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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After she talked it out in that workshop that morning and she went back home ,
then she decided that , “ I ' m not going to move out of that seat . " 22 The myth
that Rosa Parks was simply a tired old lady who decided on a particular day not
It was decided that an effective educational program would have to honor the life
- style and self - worth of the people on Johns Island . It would have to discard the
paraphernalia of grade schools . Horton decided that intimate knowledge of the ...
King decided that he would violate either , but he hoped for a state injunction .
King had learned from the Albany experience . On the subject of an injunction in
Birmingham he wrote : Planned , deliberate civil disobedience had been
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A sociological, mass movement based look at the Civil Rights Mvt and it's constituent alphabet soup parts: NAACP, CORE, SCLC, MIA etc. The interesting thing about this book is the many interviews the ... Read full review
Domination Church and the NAACP
Beginnings and Confrontations
MIA ICC and ACMHR
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