User:Mitchumch/Shreveport movement

Shreveport movement
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Location	Shreveport, Louisiana

Notable subtopics

• Memorial service crisis: September 22, 1962
  • Little Union Baptist Church
  • Rev. Harry Blake, SLCL field Secretary and President of the Shreveport Branch of the NAACP
  • Booker T Washington High School
  • Little Union Baptist Church
  • Rev. E. Edward Jones
• Dave Dennis

See also

• Louis Pendleton
• George W. D'Artois, Public Safety Commissioner
• C.O. Simpkins

Further reading

• Allen, Deborah (June 2, 2014). "Historical Marker Commemorates Civil Rights Struggles in Shreveport". Metro Leader. National Mail-It. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
• Cage, Claire (2005). Bitter Struggles in the Belt: The Civil Rights Movement in Shreveport, Louisiana, 1954-1968. (Thesis) Dartmouth College.
• First Year Report of the Shreveport Biracial Commission: A Community Agenda for Progress and Partnership. Shreveport, Louisiana: Shreveport Biracial Commission. 1989.
• "Civil Rights Movement: 50 Years Later" (PDF). The Shreveport Times. February 17, 2013. p. 5A. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

External links

• "Civil Rights Movement in Shreveport". C-SPAN. National Cable Satellite Corporation. March 24, 1997. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
• Beyond Galilee (2012) - Film on the Shreveport movement. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
• North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition