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In 1961, Albany Georgia Police Chief Laurie Pritchett restrained his forces from using violence on civil rights protesters. Instead he ordered their wholesale arrest of and incarceration in separate holding places in neighboring hamlets thus keeping his jails from getting overcrowded. Pritchett held Abernathy, MLK, and other leaders of the movement in Albany proper in horrid conditions including withholding food.
Starting in the 1920s, The New Negro Alliance’s ( NNA) movement focused on ending racist hiring and promoting nondiscriminatory practices in the food industry in the nation’s capital. William H. Hastie, who had graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College before earning a Harvard law degree, serve as one of the organization’s attorneys.
Author Fred Opie uses Arjun Appadurai’s theory of “Gastro-Politics,” meaning, “food related politics in which hierarchies, status and traditions are created and contested” to look at changes in hiring and promotion practices in the US food industry between the 1920s and 1970s. Opie talk is set in the first chapter of his book Southern Food and Civil Rights which looks at the transition from conciliatory strategies for change before the 1920s and the introduction of the radical direct action strategy which he links to India’s independence movement and the 1917 salt March against British mercantilism.
Operation Breadbasket started as an initiative of the SCLC in 1962
The New Negro Alliance in Washington, D.C. had the largest and most successful direct action movement of the 1920s through the 1940s.
