They appealed to the moral language of democracy and justice—and, sometimes, righteousness—in ... sidesteps the insight of the civil rights movement. In their own moment of crisis those ...
His Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (1994 ... as caught up in that contagious spirit of righteousness and invincibility as any of their ...
His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...