“Well, I’m not moving”: open housing and white activism in the long civil rights movement

摘要: This essay explores the open housing movement in Louisville, Kentucky to illuminate transitions national civil rights struggle mid‐1960s. Inspired by idealism of nonviolent direct action campaigns South, a new wave activists, including many whites, joined housing. Yet more vocal opposition, increasingly conservative political climate, and seeming ineffectiveness both mass legislation alter residential segregation caused disillusionment encouraged proponents seek ideas strategies. cohort however, served as bridge linking middle period activism ongoing for racial equality, human rights, what scholars now call “long movement.”