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Hartford, Bruce, "Freedom Rides of 1961. We'll Never Turn Back: History & Timeline of the Southern Freedom Movement, 1951–1968" (PDF), Civil Rights Movement Archive "The Road to Change: Freedom Riders, 1961", The Birmingham News, Feb 26, 2006, archived from the original on 2010-12-27
Advocacy groups: Lakota Freedom Movement, [87] [88] Mohawk Warrior Society, American Indian Movement, American Indian Movement of Colorado, International Indian Treaty Council, Red Power movement; Southern US. Southern United States. Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s “was not just Black male clergy in the south,” she said. “It was women who decided to march and not get on the buses (during the Montgomery bus boycott ...
David J. Dennis is a civil rights activist whose involvement began in the early 1960s. Dennis grew up in the segregated area of Omega, Louisiana. [1] He worked as a co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), as director of Mississippi's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and as one of the organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. [2]
The Southern People's Initiative works to develop a modern Southern freedom movement with a focus on "people's power, shared resources, cultural insurgency, decolonization, and liberated lives." [16] The initiative came out of the Southern Movement Assembly as a means to connect activists in the region with a common goal.
King explained that “any allusion to the left brings forth an emotional response which would seem to indicate that SCLC and the Southern Freedom Movement are Communist inspired.” King said that "O’Dell leaving was a significant sacrifice with sufferings in jail and loss of jobs under racist intimidation.” [ 11 ] O’Dell submitted his ...
Founded in 1964, the Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired by civil rights leaders like the late Rev. James Lawson.