HIST 3057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Congress Of Racial Equality, Empowered
28 Aug 2015
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Civil rights ii 04. 01. 15 -highly southern civil rights movement: getting the government on board, 1961-1965. Grassroots activism and national organizations have not really got the power of federal government to bear. Much of civil rights movement focused on how to get federal government on board how to embed them in the law of the land: freedom rides, 1961 (core, james farmer, robert kennedy) Key organization emerged to bring issue of segregation into the federal government"s orbit . Sncc member decided to rejoin with some core members and try again and again, riders were beaten riders kept coming. Young people primarily college student, 2/3 were college students and above half were whites. Wanted to push kennedy administration into action crucially robert kennedy who was serving as. Attorney general he had power to order interstate commerce commission to issue a ruling to uphold supreme court"s declaration that interstate travel should be desegregated - robert.
