If Your Back’s Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

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If Your Back’s Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement is a memoir and historical account by civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton that highlights the crucial role of grassroots citizenship education in empowering Black communities during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
historical account
memoir
about Highlander Folk School’s citizenship education model
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
political participation of African Americans
voter registration drives
aimsTo correct the historical neglect of the Citizenship Education Program
highlight the importance of citizenship education in the Civil Rights Movement
author Dorothy Cotton
depicts grassroots civil rights activism
nonviolent direct action training
documents development of the Citizenship Education Program
implementation of citizenship schools
training of local community leaders
focusesOn citizenship education
empowerment of African Americans
leadership development
voter education
genre nonfiction
historicalContext American civil rights movement
surface form: United States Civil Rights era
language English
mainSubject Black communities in the United States
Citizenship Education Program
American civil rights movement
surface form: Civil Rights Movement

grassroots organizing
narrativeForm first-person account
perspectiveOf Dorothy Cotton
portrays behind-the-scenes organizing in the Civil Rights Movement
everyday people as agents of change
relatedTo African-American history
history of education in the United States
social movement organizing
setInPeriod 1950s
1960s
setInPlace Southern United States
theme dignity and self-worth
education as a tool for liberation
grassroots leadership
nonviolent social change
titlePhraseMeaning metaphor for refusing to submit to oppression

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Dorothy Cotton notableWork If Your Back’s Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement