From Mississippi to Boston

From Mississippi to Boston: The Demand for Troops to Enforce Civil Rights - How does the demand that the federal government provide troops to protect civil rights fit into a strategy of mobilizing working people and others to defend and advance these rights? Taken from the socialist newsweekly, the Militant, these articles on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the school desegregation fight of the 1970s, provide a useful insight into the battle today to defend the right of women to choose abortion.