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Chargement... Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Townpar Phil Noble
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Great story of the people of Anniston, AL, and their handling of integration issues during the civil rights movement. The author, a white presbyterian pastor in 1960s Anniston, makes the decision to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city's potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the community than to divide it. To that end, the city created a biracial Human Relations Coucil which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws and customs. This was such a novel notion in George Wallace's Alabama that President Kennedy phoned with congratulations.
The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston - there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers - yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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