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    Similarities Through Differences: A Look at the Correlation Between Two Radically Different Civil Rights Campaigns in Albany and Birmingham

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    Date
    2016-09-30
    Author
    Henderson, Lucas
    Advisor(s)
    Chamberlain, Oscar B.
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    Abstract
    In the early 1960s, two contrasting civil rights protests made very different impacts on the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. The Albany Movement, from 1961-1962, was a drawn-out campaign that struggled mightily to prevail against a pragmatic tactician while spreading activists too thin in their strategies. The Birmingham Campaign, in 1963, resulted in a violent reaction by a short-tempered white lawman, which in turn brought about a call to action by John F. Kennedy, sowing the seeds for Lyndon B. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act in 1964. One campaign kept the Civil Rights Movement at essentially a standstill, and the other gave the Movement momentum it needed to make a massive turnaround. However, I will be seeing how the two are actually more connected than one might originally assume, by analyzing the two movements side by side in an attempt to make a correlation.
    Subject
    Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century
    Civil Rights Movement -- History -- 20th century
    Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
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    http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/75360
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