Beyond the burning bus : the civil rights revolution in a southern town /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noble, Phil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, ©2003.
Temas:
Congress of Racial Equality > History.
Congress of Racial Equality.
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Anniston > History > 20th century.
Violence > Alabama > Anniston > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Crimes against > Alabama > Anniston > History > 20th century.
Crimes aboard buses > Alabama > Anniston > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Droits > Alabama > Anniston > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Violence > Alabama > Anniston > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Crimes contre > Alabama > Anniston > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Crimes à bord des autobus > Alabama > Anniston > Histoire > 20e siècle.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights workers > Crimes against.
Crimes aboard buses.
Race relations.
Violence.
Bürgerrecht
Gewalt
Ethnische Beziehungen
Geschichte 1950-1970.
Anniston (Ala.) > Race relations.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Alabama > Anniston.
Southern States.
Anniston, Ala.
Schwärze
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
ISBN:9781603060707
1603060707

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