Download or read book Freedom s Main Line written by Derek Charles Catsam and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling, spellbinding examination of a pivotal event in civil rights history . . . a highly readable and dramatic account of a major turning point.” —Journal of African-American History Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans’ prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. Freedom’s Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national consciousness. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus. With challenges to segregated transportation as his point of departure, Catsam chronicles black Americans’ long journey toward increased civil rights. Freedom’s Main Line tells the story of bold incursions into the heart of institutional discrimination, journeys undertaken by heroic individuals who forced racial injustice into the national and international spotlight and helped pave the way for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Download or read book The Southern Regional Council Papers 1944 1968 written by Mitchell F. Ducey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert F Kennedy and the Shaping of Civil Rights 1960 1964 written by Philip A. Goduti, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1960 John F. Kennedy presidential campaign to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice worked tirelessly to change the climate of civil rights in the nation. This book explores how the Kennedy brothers and leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis and James Meredith, among others, pushed for change at a critical time. Through an analysis of White House memoranda, speeches, telephone conversations and recorded discussions as well as secondary sources, this study explores Robert Kennedy's role in key events of the civil rights movement, which include the Freedom Rides in 1961, the Ole Miss crisis in 1962 and the Birmingham campaign and March on Washington in 1963. The combined efforts of the Kennedys and these leaders helped change the atmosphere in the nation to one of acceptance and opportunity for African Americans and other minorities.
Download or read book Historical Materials in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library written by John F. Kennedy Library and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operation Pedro Pan written by John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset the proposal seemed modest: transfer two hundred unaccompanied Cuban children to Miami to save them from communism. The time apart from their parents would be short, only until Fidel Castro fell from power by the result of U.S. force, Cuban counterrevolutionary tactics, or a combination of both. Families would be reunited in a matter of months. A plan was hatched, and it worked—until it ballooned into something so unwieldy that within two years the modest proposal erupted into what at the time was the largest migration of unaccompanied minors to the United States. Operation Pedro Pan explores the undertaking sponsored by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Operation Pedro Pan was the colloquial name for the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, which began under government largesse in February 1961. Children without immediate family support in the United States—some 8,300 minors—received group and foster care through the Catholic Welfare Bureau and other religious, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations as young people were dispersed throughout the country. Using personal interviews and newly unearthed information, Operation Pedro Pan provides a deeper understanding of how and why the program was devised. John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco demonstrates how the seemingly mundane conditions of everyday life can suddenly uproot civilians from their routines of work, church, and school and thrust them into historical prominence. The stories told by Pedro Pans are filled with horror and resilience and contribute to a refugee memory that still shapes Cuban American politics and identity today.
Download or read book He Calls Me By Lightning The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow Southern Justice and the Death Penalty written by S Jonathan Bass and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Southern Independent Booksellers Association “Spring Pick” This harrowing portrait of the Jim Crow South “proves how much we do not yet know about our history” (New York Times Book Review). Caliph Washington didn’t pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. Widely lauded for its searing “insight into a history of America that can no longer be left unknown” (Washington Post), He Calls Me by Lightning is an “absorbing chronicle” (Ira Katznelson) of the forgotten life of Caliph Washington that becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Washington, a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, was wrongfully convicted of killing a white Alabama policeman in 1957 and sentenced to death. Through “meticulous research and vivid prose” (Patrick Phillips), S. Jonathan Bass reveals Washington’s Kafkaesque legal odyssey: he came within minutes of the electric chair nearly a dozen times and had his conviction overturned three times before finally being released in 1972. Devastating and essential, He Calls Me by Lightning demands that we take into account the thousands of lives cast away by the systemic racism of a “social order apparently unchanged even today” (David Levering Lewis).
Download or read book Klansville U S A written by David Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Klansville, U.S.A.', David Cunningham tells the story of the astounding trajectory of the Klan during the 1960s by focusing on the pivotal and under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina. Why the KKK flourished in the Tar Heel state presents a puzzle and a window into the complex appeal of the Klan as a whole.
Download or read book The Claude A Barnett Papers Subject files on Black Americans 1918 1967 Series A Agriculture 1923 1966 11 reels Series B Colleges and universities 1918 1966 16 reels Series C Economic conditions 1918 1966 13 reels Series D Entertainers artists and authors 1928 1966 7 reels Series E Medicine 1927 1965 7 reels Series F Military 1925 1965 3 reels Series G Philanthropic and social organization 1925 1966 5 reels Series H Politics and law 1920 1966 9 reels Series I Race relations 1923 1965 8 reels Series J Claude A Barnett personal and financial 1918 1967 9 reels Series K Religion 1924 1966 3 reels written by August Meier and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture written by United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 2074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators 1789 1982 written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1982 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives Eighty ninth Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous agriculture Bills Hearings Eighty ninth Congress Second Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Non federal Archives and Manuscripts in the United States Relating to Africa Alabama New Mexico written by and published by Hans Zell Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
