The Mississippi Improvement Committee is a rather abstruse name for a group
advocating women’s rights and rights for all races. The name, and the people behind this group
casts a positive light. What McGuire best shows is how this group has been neglected by history
and how it has been “left in the footnotes of history.” McGuire states, “Georgia Gilmore and
her club (MIA) from Nowhere, “represented more than the actual cash they contributed each
week,” B.J. Simms insisted. He continues to say, “This fine woman and her team represented
the grass-roots style type of support and enthusiasm that launched the boycott and kept it
moving to the very end.”
The injustice in this is that groups and instances such as these have been all …show more content…
Anderson analyzes
the opposition that specifically high school students faced. The issue of segregation is tackled in
Anderson’s monograph, specifically in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Violence
and mass resistance perpetuated a racial struggle that shows the oppression that black
students experienced directly. (CLARIFY SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES)
Anderson confronts this ignorance by saying, “But some of the Little Rock “mob” were
school children, armed with nothing more lethal than school books. And there was a
preponderance of women. One does not ordinarily think of the raw material for mobs as
coming from mothers who bear children. nurture them to school age, sacrifice them, which
them trained and educated in the best environment.”
While Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X brought religion to the frontlines of the Civil
Rights Movement, many religious groups had the courage to oppose racial inequality and …show more content…
Some saw the presence of the troops
as an unthinkable and oppressive threat to state’s rights and white freedoms, an invasion
evoking ancient memories of federal occupation almost a century before. Others, including
many moderates, viewed the troops as an unpalatable but necessary means to the restoration
of public order.”
Moreover, Anderson articulates, “Deeply embedded in southern culture and history, the
rhetoric of violence provided a language or expressing the fears associated with dramatic social
change, for conveying the intensity of political convictions, for mobilizing supporters and
discrediting opponents, and for arguing about and describing power relations.” Groups like
the Mother’s league in Little Rock spread racist ideology to throngs of people. Karen Anderson
says the members of the league, “claimed to a maternal authority were based on an ideology of
sexual propriety defined within a racist system. Their rhetoric focused of themes of sexual (and
other) dangers posed to whites by integration.” (BLACK WOMEN ACTIVIST/WHITE WOMEN SEGRGATIONALIST)
Women were depicted in a variety of ways during this time by the public.
advocating women’s rights and rights for all races. The name, and the people behind this group
casts a positive light. What McGuire best shows is how this group has been neglected by history
and how it has been “left in the footnotes of history.” McGuire states, “Georgia Gilmore and
her club (MIA) from Nowhere, “represented more than the actual cash they contributed each
week,” B.J. Simms insisted. He continues to say, “This fine woman and her team represented
the grass-roots style type of support and enthusiasm that launched the boycott and kept it
moving to the very end.”
The injustice in this is that groups and instances such as these have been all …show more content…
Anderson analyzes
the opposition that specifically high school students faced. The issue of segregation is tackled in
Anderson’s monograph, specifically in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Violence
and mass resistance perpetuated a racial struggle that shows the oppression that black
students experienced directly. (CLARIFY SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES)
Anderson confronts this ignorance by saying, “But some of the Little Rock “mob” were
school children, armed with nothing more lethal than school books. And there was a
preponderance of women. One does not ordinarily think of the raw material for mobs as
coming from mothers who bear children. nurture them to school age, sacrifice them, which
them trained and educated in the best environment.”
While Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X brought religion to the frontlines of the Civil
Rights Movement, many religious groups had the courage to oppose racial inequality and …show more content…
Some saw the presence of the troops
as an unthinkable and oppressive threat to state’s rights and white freedoms, an invasion
evoking ancient memories of federal occupation almost a century before. Others, including
many moderates, viewed the troops as an unpalatable but necessary means to the restoration
of public order.”
Moreover, Anderson articulates, “Deeply embedded in southern culture and history, the
rhetoric of violence provided a language or expressing the fears associated with dramatic social
change, for conveying the intensity of political convictions, for mobilizing supporters and
discrediting opponents, and for arguing about and describing power relations.” Groups like
the Mother’s league in Little Rock spread racist ideology to throngs of people. Karen Anderson
says the members of the league, “claimed to a maternal authority were based on an ideology of
sexual propriety defined within a racist system. Their rhetoric focused of themes of sexual (and
other) dangers posed to whites by integration.” (BLACK WOMEN ACTIVIST/WHITE WOMEN SEGRGATIONALIST)
Women were depicted in a variety of ways during this time by the public.