The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
Baldwin, James(1924– 87): Expatriate writer who warned of racial confla- gration if the civil rights movement failed. Twenty-fou ...
Bombingham 85 the Kennedy administration pressured Wallace to back down or face jail time. ‘Dammit,’ the pugnacious governor rep ...
the brink of racial warfare, King warned Kennedy that ‘the Negro’s endurance may be at the breaking point.’ Hours after Wallace ...
10 MARCH ON WASHINGTON T o win congressional approval of Kennedy’s civil rights bill, Martin Luther King told aides gravely, ‘We ...
and Freedom’ and Randolph was named the march’s director. Randolph accepted the draft and named Rustin deputy director. For the ...
March on Washington 89 opponents ‘an excuse to be against us. I didn’t want to give any of them a chance to say, “Yes, I’m for t ...
As the date for the march approached, nearly everyone feared that it would become a colossal failure. While congressmen worried ...
March on Washington 91 the FBI’s insistent telephone calls not to participate because of the potential danger. A sea of humanity ...
alike arose and cheered. In an impassioned speech, UAW president Walter Reuther criticized president Kennedy for being preoccupi ...
March on Washington 93 decapitated. Denise’s sobbing grandfather stumbled across her white dress shoe amid the debris, and shout ...
Rauh, Joseph, Jr.(1911– 92): Attorney who lobbied for civil rights legislation and represented the ADA, UAW, Brotherhood of Slee ...
March on Washington 95 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: A federal agency estab- lished in 1964 to invest- igate claims o ...
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11 FREEDOM SUMMER ‘ H ow many bubbles are there in a cake of soap?’ a Mississippi registrar teased a black man registering to vo ...
Evers, Medgar(1925– 63): Murdered Mississippi NAACP field secretary. Moore, Amzie (1911– 82): Businessman and NAACP activist who ...
Freedom Summer 101 segregation nationwide with a huge speakers bureau. It vilified black activists and their white allies as fag ...
master’s degree from Harvard, and taught high school mathematics. Unlike King, Moses shunned fund-raising and the media spotligh ...
Freedom Summer 103 Forman, James(1928– 2005): Former SNCC ex- ecutive secretary who demanded reparations for slavery. Moses then ...
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