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- Title
"One Doesn't Integrate on Sunday": The Creation of the Human Relations Council and the Origins of Desegregation in Anniston, Alabama, 1961-1963.
- Authors
Sprayberry, Gary S.
- Abstract
The article offers information on creation of the Human Relations Council, a biracial group for racial justice as part of the origins of desegregation in Anniston, Alabama, from 1961-1963. It also looks at the role of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) for desegregating downtown business and its repercussions which included bomb blasts to assassinate civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Details related to social and governmental upswing in Anniston are also mentioned.
- Subjects
ANNISTON (Ala.); ALABAMA; SOCIAL integration; SOUTHERN Christian Leadership Conference; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Alabama Review, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 2, p105
- ISSN
0002-4341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ala.2008.0018