![“They [white
southerners] are
not bad people.
All they are
concerned about
is…that their
sweet little girls
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the rain to stop, and I [was] sitting with the
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Griffith Stadium and hearing them break all
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Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement document provides background information on the origins and early phases of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It discusses the preconditions that enabled racial change, including ideological shifts, economic growth, and Supreme Court decisions like Brown v. Board of Education. It also describes some of the key organizations and leaders that advocated for desegregation, such as the NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as early protest tactics like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The results of these efforts included major civil rights legislation in the 1960s that outlawed segregation and expanded voting rights.
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Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement
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- 4. “I am an “invisibleman. “No, I am not a spook like those who “ haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I “ one of your Hollywood ectoplasms.
- 6. I am aman of substance, of flesh and bone, and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me…. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me.
- 8. Nor is myinvisibility exactly a matter of biochemical accident to my epidermis. That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come into contact. A matter of construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality.
- 10. I am notcomplaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. Then, too, you’re constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you often doubt if you really exist.
- 12. You wonder whetheryou aren’t simply a phantom in other people’s minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy.
- 14. It’s when youfeel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back.”
- 15. It’s when youfeel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back.”
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- 58. Today I havestood…from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great AngloSaxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history…
- 59. Let us…send ouranswer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust …and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.
- 60. “They [white southerners] are notbad people. All they are concerned about is…that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.”
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- 64. “I know theone thing we did right Was the day we started to fight. Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on, hold on.”
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- 90. “We had breakfastwhile we were waiting for the rain to stop, and I [was] sitting with the [Indianapolis] Clowns in a restaurant behind Griffith Stadium and hearing them break all the plates in the kitchen after we were finished eating. What a horrible sound.
- 91. Even as akid, the irony of it hit me: here we were in the capital in the land of freedom and equality, and they had to destroy the plates that had touched the forks that had been in the mouths of black men. If dogs had eaten off those plates, they’d have washed them.”
- 92. “There was oftena hate letter or two in the mail, and I was always concerned about Barbara and the kids being abused when they went to the ballpark…. Returning to the South took some of the boy from Mobile out of me, and replaced it with a man who was weary of the way things were.
- 93. I was tiredof being invisible.
- 94. “I was theequal of any ballplayer in the world, damn it, and if nobody was going to give me my due, it was time to grab for it.” – Henry Aaron