Beyond the burning bus : the civil rights revolution in a southern town / Phil Noble ; foreword by William B. McClain ; introduction by Nan Woodruff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, Phil, author.

Contributor:

McClain, William B., writer of foreword.

Woodruff, Nan, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Congress of Racial Equality--History.

Congress of Racial Equality.

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Anniston--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Anniston (Ala.)--Race relations.

Anniston (Ala.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montgomery ; Louisville : NewSouth Books, [2011]

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 Council 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. 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. Author Phil Noble's account is carefully researched but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were in it or those who were opposed to it.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 - The Anniston Bus Burning

2 - Beginning Years

3 - Early Bridges

4 - Changing the Patterns of Segregation

5 - The Events of the 1950s and 1960s

6 - Anniston Simmers

7 - The Bi-Racial Human Relations Council

8 - Getting Started

9 - The Library 'Incident'

10 - Slow Progress, But Progress

11 - In Retrospect

Epilogue - Thirty Years Later

Appendix

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60306-070-7