The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition
exhausted herself working three jobs. When she went into a hospital for a minor stomach operation, the doctor sterilized her wit ...
Freedom Summer 105 Beckwith, Byron de la (1920–2001): Murdered Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Thirty years elapsed befor ...
but controversial, feature was to import hundreds of northern volunteers – three-quarters of them white college students – to re ...
Freedom Summer 107 Schwerner, Michael (1939–64): White CORE worker murdered by Mis- sissippi klansmen at the start of Freedom Su ...
You’ve struck a blow for the White Man. Mississippi can be proud of you [for killing] those three sons of bitches tonight.’ As S ...
Freedom Summer 109 soldiers who would retreat to their northern homes at summer’s end. Despite SNCC’s informal ban, interracial ...
convention, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer headed a delegation of sixty-eight ‘Freedom Democrats’ who backed Lyndon Johnson an ...
Freedom Summer 111 Bayard Rustin, who believed in pragmatic politics as well as mass action, saw the liberal Johnson as the best ...
12 BLOODY SUNDAY T he crisis over black voting reached boiling point in the sleepy town of Selma, once a cotton market on the mu ...
Bloody Sunday 113 Boynton, Amelia(1910 ): Local leader of the Selma campaign. what we want from white people. You just have to ...
especially interested in the Hammermill paper company of Erie, Pennsylvania, which proposed a $30 million plant with 250 employe ...
Bloody Sunday 115 defiantly: ‘Ain’t nobody scared around here.’ Then she sent the sheriff sprawl- ing with a right cross. As dep ...
Malcolm’s evolution was cut short by rival Black Muslims who murdered him days after visiting Selma. As the Selma demonstrations ...
Bloody Sunday 117 Jackson, Jimmie Lee (1938–65): Civil rights activist whose killing inspired the Selma-to- Montgomery voting-ri ...
brandishing nightsticks and wearing blue uniforms, white helmets, and gas masks. Sheriff Clark’s mounted possemen waited out of ...
Bloody Sunday 119 warning, the president dispatched former Florida governor Leroy Collins, head of the federal Community Relatio ...
In a democracy, he declared with finality, ‘It is wrong – deadly wrong – to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote ...
Bloody Sunday 121 facing traffic. As troops surrounded the marchers and a convoy of army vehicles, utility trucks, and ambulance ...
repetition: ‘How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you will reap what you sow. How lo ...
Bloody Sunday 123 stop this bill,’ he told an aide. ‘We can’t deny the Negroes a basic constitu- tional right to vote.’ The admi ...
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