The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

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Introduction to the Series History is a narrative constructed by historians from traces left by the past. Historical enquiry is ...

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Contents Acknowledgements x Publisher’s Acknowledgement xii Abbreviations xiii Chronology xv Who’s Who xxii Glossary xxviii Maps ...

3 Declaration of Constitutional Principles: the Southern Manifesto, viii THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ...

Contents ix - 7 FREEDOM RIDE - 8 BATTLE OF OLE MISS - 9 BOMBINGHAM - 10 MARCH ON WASHINGTON PART F ...

Acknowledgements Many people and institutions have generously supported this study of the black civil rights movement. At Canisi ...

Several people have been constant sources of encouragement, including my former major professor Carl Brauer, an expert on the Ke ...

Publisher’s Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Zephyr Press for a ...

Abbreviations ACLU American Civil Liberties Union ACMHR Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights ADA Americans for Democratic ...

ROTC Reserve Officers Training Corps SCEF Southern Conference Educational Fund SCHW Southern Conference for Human Welfare SCLC S ...

Chronology 1865 Fall Southern state legislatures enact Black Codes. 18 December 13th Amendment outlaws slavery. 24 December KKK ...

1895 18 September Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Compromise speech. 1896 6 May Plessyv. Fergusonpermits ‘separate but ...

1942 April CORE organizes. 1944 26 January Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma. 16 February SRC organizes. 3 April Smith ...

1956 5 February Autherine Lucy becomes the first black to enter the University of Alabama. 12 March Southern Manifesto denounces ...

20 November Kennedy orders the integration of federally-financed housing. September Operation Breadbasket begins. 1963 March–May ...