The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
144 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT We shall overcome, The truth will make us free.... We shall overcome someday We’ll walk hand in ha ...
Documents 145 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement cal ...
146 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the ...
Documents 147 short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the ...
148 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands ...
Documents 149 man, it is not necessary for legislation or proclamation or Supreme Court decisions to give freedom to the black m ...
150 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT If your answer to Question 14 is ‘Yes,’ name the crime or crimes of which you have been convicted ...
Documents 151 STUDENT VOICEEDITORIAL CARTOON ON THE FBI, 25 NOVEMBER 1964 This SNCC cartoon lambasts the FBI and its director, J ...
152 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT SNCC HANDBILL ON THE USEFULNESS OF POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI, 1964 To explain to blacks in the Missi ...
Documents 153 someone else $400 to bomb all the houses where volunteers are staying. I’m not convinced that that particular stor ...
154 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT These facts do not mean that whites cannot help. They can participate on a voluntary basis. We can ...
Documents 155 White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white soci- ety condones it.... It is time to m ...
156 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace. And as our major political ...
FURTHER READING The civil rights movement is one of the most studied aspects of American his- tory, and the sources that follow ...
158 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Blood(2000), Bruce Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind(2002), and George Frederickson, The Arrogan ...
Further Reading 159 The best collections of interviews are Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested (1977), Clayborne Carson et al., Eye ...
160 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT supported the civil rights movement. Carol Polsgrove, Divided Minds (2001), chronicles the ambival ...
Further Reading 161 Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South (2001), looks at the defection of sou ...
162 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Rise of Massive Resistance (1969), and Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions (2000). The desegregation of ...
Further Reading 163 Sit-ins The Greensboro demonstration that set off the movement’s sit-in phase is covered by Miles Wolff, Lun ...
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