The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
Freedom Ride: CORE’s 1961 demonstration to test whether interstate transportation facilities were desegregated, as the Supreme C ...
Freedom Ride 65 Connor, Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull’ (1897– 1973): Birmingham’s public safety commis- sioner who ordered dogs, night ...
fifteen minutes.’ J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI as his personal fiefdom for a half century, did not pass Rowe’s warning to hi ...
Freedom Ride 67 fishing.’ Exasperated, Kennedy reached the Greyhound superintendent in Birmingham and barked at him: ‘Somebody b ...
Seigenthaler offered to assist two women who were being beaten, he was sucker-punched from behind with an iron bar and lay uncon ...
Freedom Ride 69 THE MAGNOLIA STATE’ and ‘PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD.’ ‘Everyone on the bus was prepared to die,’ a rider admitted. ...
Voter Education Project: A voter-registration cam- paign in the deep South supported by the Ken- nedy administration and funded ...
8 BATTLE OF OLE MISS Meredith, James (1933– ): First black to enroll at the University of Mississippi; shot during his March Aga ...
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: This federal court strongly endorsed racial justice in the deep South. Wisdom, John Minor (1905– ...
Battle of Ole Miss 73 administration kept a low profile, as it had during the Freedom Ride in Alabama. White House officials con ...
defend the state’s color line. After Robert Kennedy failed four times to regis- ter Meredith, the president tried to clean up th ...
Battle of Ole Miss 75 Barnett that he would leak their incriminating taped telephone conversa- tions. The governor, who publicly ...
crime he was charged with – insurrection. President Kennedy called the riot ‘the worst thing I’ve seen in forty-five years’ and ...
Battle of Ole Miss 77 funding to the Citizens’ Council and dismantling barriers to black voting. Businessmen in Jackson defied g ...
9 BOMBINGHAM Standing in the Door: The vow of Alabama gov- ernor George Wallace to block black students from enrolling at the Un ...
Bombingham 79 Reagon, Bernice Johnson: (1942– ): Albany pro- tester and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a choral group that ...
Black Muslims: A refer- ence to members of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X(1925–65): Fiery Nation of Islam min- ister who mocked ...
Bombingham 81 would compel federal intervention. If ‘the most segregated city in America’ could be integrated through nonviolent ...
run out and black businessmen urging King to retreat. If King defied the judge’s order, he risked alienating allies in Washingto ...
Bombingham 83 Faced with continuing demonstrations, an exasperated Bull Connor retali- ated. He ordered firemen to turn high-pre ...
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