Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for FreedomOxford University Press, 1980 - 436 pages The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the story of what happened in Greensboro; it also tells the story in microcosm of America's effort to come to grips with our most abiding national dilemma--racism. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Inch by Inch | 15 |
The Politics of Moderation | 56 |
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Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black ... William H. Chafe Affichage d'extraits - 1980 |
Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black ... William H. Chafe Affichage d'extraits - 1980 |
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action activists activities AFSC Papers Bennett College black community black leaders Black Panther Black Panther party Black Power black protest Bluethenthal boro Brown decision cafeteria campus Carolina Peacemaker Carolyn Mark Cecil Bishop Church citizens city council city's civil rights Coley Committee court declared demonstrations desegregation downtown Dudley High School Ezell Blair GAPP George Evans George Roach George Simkins Governor Greensboro Community Greensboro Daily Greensboro Record Hal Sieber Hodges Papers integration interracial interviews issue Jack Elam June Klan leadership Lewis Brandon Lewis Dowdy Lineberry Luther Hodges Mayor meeting memorandum NAACP National Negro Nelson Johnson North Carolina noted officials organization Otis Hairston parents Pearsall Plan police political president progressive mystique race relations racial response Sanford Papers Schenck school board school desegregation segregation Sept sit-ins tion told Tony Stanley Vance Chavis Walter Johnson white leaders William Thomas Woolworth's YWCA Zane