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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morris, Aldon D. Origins of the civil rights movement. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1984 (OCoLC)557655166 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Aldon D Morris |
ISBN: | 002922120X 9780029221204 9780029221303 0029221307 |
OCLC Number: | 10849780 |
Awards: | American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, 1986. |
Description: | xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Domination, church, and the NAACP -- Beginnings and confrontations -- Movement centers: MIA, ICC, and ACMHR -- The SCLC: the decentralized political arm of the Black church -- The SCLC's crusade for citizenship -- Organizational relationships: the SCLC, the NAACP, and CORE -- Movement halfway houses -- Internal organization and direct action -- 1960: origins of a decade of disruption -- Birmingham: a planned exercise in mass disruption -- Theoretical overview and conclusions. |
Responsibility: | Aldon D. Morris. |
Abstract:
An account of the origins, development, and personalities of the Civil Rights movement from 1953-1963.
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