civil rights movement

is a movement that was an attack not simply on segregated institutions but on the white southerners' Christian faith that supported those institutions.

mays knew, as historian Joseph Crespino has recently argued, that 'the civil rights movement was an attack not simply on segregated institutions but on the set of ideologies that supported those institutions and, by extension, on white southerners' theological worldviews. the religious nature of the southern civil rights struggle forced white southerners to explain anew the relationship between their christian faith and their segregationist practice'

is a movement based on faith. Participation therein was seen as an extension of one's faith.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. John Lewis

1s 2eally important victory was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, one had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. Carol Moseley Braun

is responsible for, as one of its ironic outcomes, the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates

is tragic for the fact that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. Maggie Gallagher

is triumphant for the fact that when one travels through the South today, one does not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. Alice Walker

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civil rights movement