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He wrote: "There was on one hand the established authority: the citadels of institutionalized racism, the masters of war, the apparatus of government - state, local and federal - and those chosen to do the dirty work of suppressing our movement in defense of the status quo. This established authority acted out a way of life that was rooted in custom and tradition, and dictated by class interests."

The other center of authority was the Civil Rights-Anti War Movement which represented a continuum of protest during the period. This authority, the Movement, represented the people's alternative to the power of institutionalized racism and colonial war."

That movement bears major responsibility for creating the ^{benefits and changes} [illegible] ^{we all me women, black, white, enjoy} today. O'Dell writes again: "It is equally important to recognize that the civil rights laws of the 1950s were passed after the fact. They did not create change; rather, the struggle for expanded democracy, participated in by tens of thousands of our fellow citizens, produced a body of legislation which confirmed the effectiveness of that struggle. The laws were a crystalized form of expressing the new reality that people would no longer abide by the rules are mores of racial segregation"

Seven lines marked through

He wrote: "There was on one hand the established authority: the citadels of institutionalized racism, the masters of war, the apparatus of government - state, local and federal - and those chosen to do the dirty work of suppressing our movement in defense of the status quo. This established authority acted out a way of life that was rooted in custom and tradition, and dictated by class interests."

The other center of authority was the Civil Rights-Anti War Movement which represented a continum of protest during the period. This authority, the Movement, represented the people's alternative to the power of institutionalized racism and colonial war."

That movement bears major responsibility for creating the ^{benefits and changes} [illegible] ^{we all men women, black, white, enjoy} today. O'Dell writes again: "It is equally important to recognize that the civil rights laws of th 1950s were passed after the fact. They did not create change; rather the struggle for expanded democracy, participated in by tens of thousands of our fellow citizens, produced a body of legislation which confirmed the effectiveness of that struggle. The laws were a crystalized form of expressing the new reality that people would no longer abide by the rules are mores of racial segregation"