Crusade for Citizenship
Crusade for Citizenship was the 1958 voter project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The aim of the project was to double the number of African-American voters in the southern United States for the 1958 and 1960 elections. Initially organized by Ella Baker as Associate Director then by Reverend John Tilley as the first Executive Director. The project was unsuccessful in achieving its objectives.[1]
References
- ^ Morris, Aldon D. (1986). "The SCLCs Crusade for Citizenship". The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. Simon and Schuster. pp. 100–119. ISBN 9780029221303.
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Further reading
- Ransby, Barbara (2003). "The Preacher and the Organizer: The Politics of Leadership in the Early Civil Rights Movement". Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 170–208. ISBN 9780807856161.