The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
Abernathy, Ralph(1926– 90): Martin Luther King’s trusted lieutenant. Parks, Rosa (1913– 2005): ‘The mother of the civil rights m ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott 45 Highlander Folk School: An influential labor and civil rights training cen- tre in Tennessee. Highland ...
Before daybreak on Monday, 5 December, the bus boycott began despite the cold, lack of money, fears of retaliation, and cross-to ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott 47 Morehouse College. Morehouse president Benjamin Mays introduced the younger King to liberal Protestant ...
deep religious faith held by many blacks, King united the lower and middle classes to challenge Jim Crow. On the night the boyco ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott 49 The black community proved far more resilient than white officials believed possible. Working-class bl ...
E.D. Nixon’s lawn. Despite beatings, job dismissals, home foreclosures, and arrests, most boycotters carried on. ‘They can bomb ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott 51 unconstitutional. By then, the bus boycott had outlasted 381 days of intim- idation, bombings, and cou ...
Southern Christian Leadership Conference: This nonviolent, direct- action organization was founded by Martin Luther King in 1957 ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott 53 Kennedy, John F.(1917– 63): US president who called civil rights ‘a moral issue,’ asked for comprehens ...
6 Sit-ins I n Greensboro, North Carolina, the Woolworth’s department store man- agement allowed black patrons to buy merchandise ...
Sit-ins 55 McKissick, Floyd(1922– 91): CORE attorney who organized North Carolina sit-ins and later preached black power. Seller ...
Lawson, James, Jr. (1928–): Clergyman who led the sit-in movement in Nashville, helped found SNCC, joined the Freedom Ride, and ...
Sit-ins 57 When the Nashville police chief announced that student demonstrators would be arrested, John Lewis, an Alabama sharec ...
was morally wrong. The mayor’s concession marked the turning point in Nashville. Three weeks later, the Greyhound bus terminal s ...
Sit-ins 59 At first, whites ignored the sit-ins, the traditional response to black demands. Retaliation was not long in coming b ...
Carmichael, Stokely (1941–98): Organizer of voter registration projects in Mississippi and Lown- des county, Alabama; charismati ...
Sit-ins 61 Jackson, Jesse(1941– ): Headed Operation Breadbasket and PUSH and sought the presi- dency in the 1980s. each wanted t ...
driver’s license after moving to Atlanta and was sentenced to four months of hard labor with dangerous criminals and violent dep ...
7 FREEDOM RIDE G rowing up in Texas, James Farmersaw whites humiliate his father. J. Leonard Farmer was a college professor with ...
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