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Thomas Sugrue: Civil Rights v. Black Power, 5 October 2006
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Raymond Arsenault.
Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006,0 19 513674 8 Show More
by Raymond Arsenault.
Oxford, 690 pp., £19.99, March 2006,
“... laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. Leading the protests was Martin Luther King. In the aftermath of the Montgomery bus boycott, King established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, using black churches as the base for organising protests. During the 1955-65 period, what historians call the ... ”