User:Mitchumch/Mobile movement
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{{Infobox civil conflict
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| place = Mobile, Alabama
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- City of Mobile v. Bolden (1980)
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- Non-Partisan Voters League (NPVL)
- Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW)
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- Noble Beasley, president
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Notable subtopics
- Mobile bus boycott
- Noble Beasley and Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW)
- Formation of Negro Voters and Veterans Association by African-American WWII veterans in Mobile
- Mobile County public school desegregation crisis
- Birdie Mae Davis v. Board of School Commissioners, Mobile County, Alabama - longest-running secondary school desegregation case in American history
- Father Albert Foley
See also
Further reading
=Books=
- {{cite book|last1=Bivens|first1=Shawn A.|title=Mobile Alabama’s People of Color: A Tricentennial History, 1702- 2002|date=2004|publisher=Trafford Publishing|location=Victoria, British Columbia|isbn=9781412002172}}
- {{cite book|last1=Foley, S.J.|first1=Albert J.|editor1-last=Willie|editor1-first=Charles V.|editor2-last=Greenblatt|editor2-first=Susan L.|title=In Community Politics and Educational Change: Ten School Systems under Court Order|date=1980|publisher=Longman|location=New York|isbn=9780582281479|pages=174-207|chapter=Mobile Alabama: The Demise of State Sanctioned Resistance}}
- {{cite book|last1=Frankenberg|first1=Erica|editor1-last=Boger|editor1-first=John Charles|editor2-last=Orfield|editor2-first=Gary|title=School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?|date=2005|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rnw6bwGpgAsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|pages=164-184|isbn=9780807856130|chapter=The Impact of School Segregation on Residential Housing Patterns: Mobile, Alabama and Charlotte, North Carolina}}
- {{cite book|last1=Gonzales|first1=James Joullian|title=Gunny: Memoirs of Mobile's South Side Riding Alabama's Tide of White Supremacy|date=2007|publisher=Academy Books|location=Greenwood Village, Colorado|isbn=9780979471414}}
- {{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Marjorie K.|last2=McAdory|first2=Denise|title=Who Are You, Staking a Claim in This Land?|date=2004|publisher=Trafford Publishing|location=Victoria, British Columbia|isbn=9781553695103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yLXGX_05AsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Mahan|editor1-first=Howard|editor2-last=Newman|editor2-first=Joseph|title=The Future of Public Education in Mobile|date=1982|publisher=The South Alabama Review|location=Mobile, Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Nicholls|first1=Keith|editor1-last=Thomason|editor1-first=Michael V. R.|title=Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City|date=2001|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=9780817310653|chapter=Politics and Civil Rights in Post-World War II Mobile}}
- {{cite book|last1=Pride|first1=Richard A.|title=The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97, Volume 2|date=2002|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|isbn=9780252075940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6IuMnajNqcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
- {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=Kenneth Anthony|title=Port City Crusader: John LeFlore and the Non-Partisan Voters League in Mobile, Alabama|date=2013|publisher=Mod Mobilian Press|location=Mobile, Alabama|isbn=9780984890934}}
- {{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=Bama Wathan|title=History of Barton Academy|date=1971|publisher=The Haunted Book Shop|location=Mobile, Alabama}}
==Biography==
- {{cite book|last1=Pride|first1=Richard Alan|title=The Confession of Dorothy Danner: Telling a Life|date=1995|publisher=Vanderbilt University Press|location=Nashville, Tennessee|isbn=9780826512703|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBQbhzoe5asC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
==Autobiographies and memoirs==
- {{cite book|last1=Butler|first1=Rosemary Braziel|last2=Bechtel|first2=Lenore Vinyard|title=Rosemary's Journey: Surviving Segregation with Privileged Pizzazz|date=2005|publisher=Rosemary Braziel Butler|location=Mobile, Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Horton|first1=Leonard|title=The Centralians, 1947-1970|date=2005|publisher=Buck Publishing|location=Roanoke, Virginia|isbn=9780972591232}}
- {{cite book|last1=Richardson|first1=Frederick Douglas|title=From Nymph to Mobile and Beyond: The Impossible Dream|date=2012|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn=9781467972949}}
- {{cite book|last1=Richardson|first1=Frederick Douglas, Jr.|title=The Genesis and Exodus of NOW|date=1978|publisher=Vantage|location=New York|isbn=9781497556577}}
==Dissertations and theses==
- {{cite book|last1=Ahmed|first1=Nahfiza|title=Race, Class and Citizenship: The Civil Rights Struggle in Mobile, Alabama, 1925-85|date=1999|publisher=(Thesis) University of Leicester|location=Leicester, England|url=https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/31029/1/U594567.pdf}}
- {{cite book|last1=Broughton|first1=Timothy M.|title=Campaign for Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama 1942-1963|date=2003|publisher=(Dissertation) Clark Atlanta University}}
- {{cite book|last1=Case|first1=Delene M.|title=Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around': The Black Freedom Struggle in Mobile, Alabama, 1902-1969|date=2004|publisher=(Thesis) University of South Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Dow|first1=Patsy Busby|title=Joseph N. Langan: Mobile's Racial Diplomat|date=1993|publisher=(Thesis) University of South Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Duke|first1=Brian Andrew|title=The Strange Career of Birdie Mae Davis: A History of a School Desegregation Lawsuit in Mobile, Alabama, 1963-1997|date=2009|publisher=(Thesis) Auburn University|location=Auburn, Alabama|url=https://etd.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/10415/1654/Final%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1}}
- {{cite book|last1=Duke|first1=Eric D.|title=A Life in the Struggle: John L. LeFlore and the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama (1925-1975)|date=1998|publisher=(Thesis) Florida State University}}
- {{cite book|last1=Ellis|first1=Carol|title=The Tragedy of the White Moderate: Father Albert Foley and Alabama Civil Rights, 1963-1967|date=2002|publisher=(MA Thesis) University of South Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Fourneir|first1=Hazel|title=An In-Service Program to Resolve the Issues Related to Desegregation and Sex Discrimination in the Mobile County Public Schools|date=1977|publisher=(Ed. S. Thesis) Alabama State University}}
- {{cite book|last1=Frankenberg|first1=Erica|title="The Problem of the Color Line" : An Examination of School Desegregation and its Effects on Educational Opportunity in Mobile, Alabama|date=2001|publisher=Dartmouth College}}
- {{cite book|last1=Kirkland|first1=Scotty E.|title=Pink Sheets and Black Ballots: Politics and Civil Rights in Mobile, Alabama, 1945-1985|date=2009|publisher=(Thesis) University of South Alabama}}
- {{cite book|last1=Padgett|first1=Charles Stephen|title=Schooled in Invisibility: The Desegretation of Spring HIll College, Mobile, Alabama, 1948-1963|date=2000|publisher=(Dissertation) University of Georgia|location=Athens, Georgia}}
- {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Peter Aaron|title=School Integration and Political Culture: The Busing Decision in Mobile County, Alabama, 1968-1973|date=1998|publisher=(Thesis) University of South Alabama}}
=Journals=
- {{cite journal|last1=Ahmed|first1=Nahfiza|title=A City Too Respectable to Hate: Mobile during the Era of Desegregation, 1961-1965|journal=Gulf South Historical Review|date=Fall 1999|volume=15|issue=1|pages=49-67}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Ahmed|first1=Nahfiza|title=The Neighborhood Organized Workers of Mobile Alabama: Black Power and Local Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South, 1968-1971|journal=Southern Historian|date=1999|volume=20|pages=25-40}}
- {{cite journal|last1=McLaurin|first1=Melton A.|editor1-last=Ted|editor1-first=Carageorge|editor2-last=Gilliam|editor2-first=Thomas J.|title=Mobile Blacks and World War II: The Development of a Political Consciousness|journal=Gulf Coast Politics in the Twentieth Century|date=1974|pages=47-56|publisher=Historic Pensacola Preservation Board|location=Pensacola, Florida}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Nelson|first1=Bruce|title=Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile During World War II|journal=Journal o f American History|date=December 1993|volume=80|issue=3|pages=863-912|doi=10.2307/2080410}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Nicholls|first1=Keith|title=The Non-Partisan Voters’ League of Mobile, Alabama: Its Founding and Major Accomplishments|journal=Gulf Coast Historical Review|date=Spring 1993|volume=8|issue=2|pages=74-88}}
=Newspapers=
- {{cite news|last1=Kirkland|first1=Scotty E.|title=Insight: Oversimplifying Mobile's Civil Rights History|url=http://blog.al.com/press-register-commentary/2011/02/insight_oversimplifying_mobile.html|accessdate=19 July 2015|work=AL.com|publisher=Alabama Media Group|date=February 13, 2011}}
- {{cite news|last1=Liesch|first1=Dale|title=Friends Remember NOW Founder Noble Beasley as ‘Courageous Leader’|url=http://lagniappemobile.com/friends-remember-now-founder-noble-beasley-courageous-leader/|accessdate=19 July 2015|work=Lagniappe|publisher=Lagniappe/Something Extra Publishing|date=November 5, 2014}}
External links
- [http://www.southalabama.edu/mccallarchives/pdf/npvl.pdf Non-Partisan Voters League Records], The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Aabama.
- [http://www.southalabama.edu/mccallarchives/guides_to_collections/africian_amer_sub_guide.shtml African-American History Research Sources at The McCall Library], The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Aabama.
- [http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=731 Delene Case interviews], The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories, University of South Alabama. Part of the Library of Congress.
- [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2942 John LeFlore] Article in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, provided by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
- [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3104 Neighborhood Organized Workers of Mobile (NOW)] Article in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, provided by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
- [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3385 Albert Foley Jr.] Article in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, provided by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
- [https://www.visualcv.com/sekirkland Scotty Kirkland] - Authoritative scholar on Mobile, Alabama during Civil Rights Movement