A pro-integration countermovement actively mobilized to support Charlotte’s desegregation

Evidence

Beneath the surface of the antibusing revolt, Charlotte’s longstanding commitment to legal compliance and public education cameto the fore during September 1970. The League of Women Voters and the Interested Citizens Association (an interracial group of one thousand members formed to support full integration) mobilized to assist in the massive transition, and more than four thousand parents and students also volunteered their services. Ministers and religious groups in both the black and the white communities issued appeals for peaceful desegregation, and for the first time, the leaders of the downtown establishment abandoned the stance of neutrality and called for the Lassiter / “COLOR-BLIND” CONSERVATISM 571 at UCSF LIBRARY & CKM on March 14, 2015 juh. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 88

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elected officials and schools mobilized en masse against desegregation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 932; White barricades to stop black expansion actually triggered nearby integration — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 22; Favorable political opportunity structure shifts facilitated black mobilization against apartheid — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 630

Broader Connections

• Elected officials and schools mobilized en masse against desegregation #complicates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 932
• Favorable political opportunity structure shifts facilitated black mobilization against apartheid #expands (0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 630
• White barricades to stop black expansion actually triggered nearby integration #corroborates (0.72) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 22