Segregationist Schemes: The Citizens' Council, Reverse Freedom Rides, and Opposition to Welfare in Alabama, 1962-1968.

The article "Segregationist Schemes: The Citizens' Council, Reverse Freedom Rides, and Opposition to Welfare in Alabama, 1962-1968" delves into the displacement of Black southerners by the White Citizens' Councils through the Reverse Freedom Rides program. It discusses the challenges faced by indivi...

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Published in:Alabama Review Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 109 - 134
Main Author: LOPEZ, ALLIE R.
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Published: University of Alabama Press Apr2025
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        Poor people
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        War on poverty (United States)
        Single mothers
        Jim Crow laws
        Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
        Rural poor
        Grandparent-grandchild relationships
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          White Citizens councils
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          Jim Crow laws
          Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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      ab: The article "Segregationist Schemes: The Citizens' Council, Reverse Freedom Rides, and Opposition to Welfare in Alabama, 1962-1968" delves into the displacement of Black southerners by the White Citizens' Councils through the Reverse Freedom Rides program. It discusses the challenges faced by individuals like Ina Perry, Mary Montgomery, and Mamie Lee Underwood, who were promised economic opportunities but left stranded in unfamiliar cities without adequate support. The text also highlights discriminatory practices and insufficient welfare assistance provided by local white officials in Alabama, perpetuating poverty and hardship for Black families. The article reveals how poor, Black families in Alabama faced economic pressures that led to out-migration, despite their desire to remain in the South, as officials strategically denied welfare funds to force them out of the state.
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