Martin Luther King Jr And The Freedom Movement
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Author | : Mary Lou Finley |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813166527 |
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) to form the Chicago Freedom Movement. The open housing demonstrations they organized eventually resulted in a controversial agreement with Mayor Richard J. Daley and other city leaders, the fallout of which has historically led some to conclude that the movement was largely ineffective. In this important volume, an eminent team of scholars and activists offer an alternative assessment of the Chicago Freedom Movement's impact on race relations and social justice, both in the city and across the nation. Building upon recent works, the contributors reexamine the movement and illuminate its lasting contributions in order to challenge conventional perceptions that have underestimated its impressive legacy.
Author | : Lillie Patterson |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780613261456 |
A biography of the Baptist minister, focusing on his leadership role in the civil rights movement.
Author | : Jonathan Rieder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620400596 |
The first ever trade history of a landmark of American letters--Martin Luther King Jr's legendary Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Author | : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807000701 |
MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age. Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped one of them at random.
Author | : Stewart Burns |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781483983516 |
Burns sets the scene for the events of 1963, describing Martin Luther King's development from his debut on the national stage during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 through the lunch counter sit-ins, the freedom rides, Bayard Rustin's role in the development of King's views on nonviolence, the failures of the Albany movement, James Meredith's effort to enroll at the University of Mississippi, and the machinations and prevarications of the Kennedy White House on civil rights.
Author | : James Richard Ralph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Ralph argues that the new push for equality, exemplified by the Chicago Freedom Movement, actually undermined popular support for the civil rights movement and let to its ultimate decline.
Author | : James Richard Ralph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Ralph argues that the new push for equality, exemplified by the Chicago Freedom Movement, actually undermined popular support for the civil rights movement and let to its ultimate decline.
Author | : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807001139 |
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”
Author | : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780241339466 |
This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Author | : Avi Kumin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |