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• The civil rights movement and the right to vote: black protest, segregationist violence and the audience.
  Social Forces; June 1, 2008
  By Santoro, Wayne A.; 700+ words

  The most widely cited finding in William Gamson's ([1975]1990) research on the outcomes of social movements is that the use of violence by one of the combatants often works. By noting the...
• The NAACP, Black Power, and the African American Freedom Struggle, 1966-1969
  The Historian; March 22, 2007
  By Hall, Simon; 700+ words

  "[Black Power] is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." --Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive director, 5 July 1966 "all of the goals which Mr. Carmichael ... asserts...
• Local Rifts over Jewish Support for African Americans in the Pre-Civil Rights Era
  The Western Journal of Black Studies; September 22, 2002
  By Fobanjong, John; 700+ words

  Introduction The history of the modern civil rights movement in America is undeniably the story of cooperation among Blacks, Jews, and other progressive whites in the struggle to gain...
• Let America Be America Then: Imagining a More United Front in the Early Civil Rights Era
  Labour/Le Travail; September 22, 2011
  By Dennis, Michael; 700+ words

  Eric Porter, The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010) Barbara Foley, Wrestling with the Left: The...
• The civil rights movement's struggle for fair employment: a "dramatic events--conventional politics" model *.
  Social Forces; September 1, 2002
  By Santoro, Wayne A.; 700+ words

  Conventional wisdom views segregationist violence, black protests, and black riots as largely responsible for the passage of breakthrough civil rights laws (Barkan 1984; Garrow 1978; McAdam...