I was in elementary school when the 16thStreet Baptist Church was bombed by Klansmen. That was the same year that Wallace was grandstanding in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to symbolically block the entrance to Black students. It was the time of the Selma marches; the thir...
remained in force. After his departure in 1914, however, the militancy of the Indian Congress was lost until after World War II, when younger, more radical groups won power from the middle class that had dominated the organization. Nevertheless, Gandhi’s example influenced later African ...
However, the organization’s by-laws required that the focal population of the work be unique in some significant sense. This stipulation hastened use of the term “mountain whites” while encouraging a particular disregard for ethno-racial diversity in southern Appalachia. More on the AMA’s ...