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Behind The Glare Of The Spotlight: Grassroots Efforts To Integrate Facilities In Jacksonville, Florida 1958-1963, Debbie Owens
Behind The Glare Of The Spotlight: Grassroots Efforts To Integrate Facilities In Jacksonville, Florida 1958-1963, Debbie Owens
Debbie Owens
The author examines community-based crusades that augmented the collective efforts of national civil rights organizations. This article illuminates the roles of individual contributors to the grassroots and legal struggle for racial equality in Jacksonville, Florida, between 1958 and 1963. An examination of both local and national press coverage of efforts by citizens to integrate public facilities reveals the scope of this grassroots activism, which paralleled the national campaign.