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1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index. |
| Contents |
Anniston Bus Burning -- Beginning Years -- Early Bridges -- Changing the Patterns of Segregation -- Events of the 1950s and 1960s -- Anniston Simmers -- Bi-Racial Human Relations Council -- Library "Incident" -- Slow Progress, But Progress -- In Retrospect -- Epilogue: Thirty Years Later. |
| Summary |
"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 |
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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 |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Congress of Racial Equality -- History.
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Congress of Racial Equality. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Anniston -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Alabama -- Anniston. |
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20th century |
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Anniston (Ala.) -- Race relations.
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Violence -- Alabama -- Anniston -- History -- 20th century.
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Violence. |
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Civil rights workers -- Crimes against -- Alabama -- Anniston -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights workers -- Crimes against. |
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Civil rights workers. |
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Crimes aboard buses -- Alabama -- Anniston -- History -- 20th century.
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Crimes aboard buses. |
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements. |
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Southern States. |
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Race relations. |
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Bürgerrecht. |
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Gewalt. |
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Ethnische Beziehungen. |
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Anniston, Ala. |
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Geschichte 1950-1970. |
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Schwarze. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Noble, Phil. Beyond the burning bus. Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, ©2003 158838120X (DLC) 2003007411 (OCoLC)52057268 |
| ISBN |
9781603060707 (electronic book) |
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1603060707 (electronic book) |
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158838120X |
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9781588381200 |
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