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There was no countervailing indication that Kilpatrick was the intellectual author of Virginia's illegal defiance of the Supreme Court. There was no hint of black Mississippi's reaction to freeing the two killers.

Another text indentified Floyd McKissick, President of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Stokeley Carmichael, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as "active in militant civil rights organizations."

Militancy, of course, is relative; Webster's describes it as "aggressively active", but here as elsewhere, it is a highly charged term, suggesting actions and attitudes outside the scope of proper social change, relegating Carmichael and McKissick to a radical fringe.

This same book mentioned the non-existent Equal Rights Commission - probably the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - as a source of lawsuits against discrimination.

That is a disturbing landscape. - out-of-date textbooks and students disinterested in affecting current public policy. But there is a brighter picture, one which involves new ways of looking at the old facts from which 20th Century American civil rights history is made.

One problem with movement history is the understandable desire of many to teach it like the Civil War or the administration of the President, with a definite beginning and end and a neat chain of cause and effect, but few would begin the Civil War abruptly at Fort Sumter or the first Clinton ^{second Bush}

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There was no countervailing indication that Kilpatrick was the intellectual author of Virginia's illegal defiance of the Supreme Court. There was no hint of black Mississippi's reaction to freeing the two killers.

Another text indentified Floyd McKissick, President of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Stokeley Carmichael, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as "Active in militant civil rights organizations."

Militancy, of course, is relative; Webster's describes it as "aggressively active", but here as elsewhere, it is a highly charged term, suggesting actions and attitudes outside the scope of proper social change, relegating Carmichael and McKissick to a radical fringe.

This same book mentioned the non-existent Equal Rights Commission - probably the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - as a source of lawsuits against discrimination.

that is a disturbing landscape. - out of -date textbooks and students disinterested in affecting current public policy. But there is a brighter picture, one which involves new ways of looking at the old facts from which 20th Century American civil rights history is made.
One problem with movement history is the understandable desire of many to teach it like the Civil War or the administration of the President, with a definite beginning and end and a neat chain of cause and effect, but few would begin the Civil War abruptly at Fort Sumter or the first Clinton ^{second Bush}