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Abernathy, Ralph 1926-1990 Alabama Birmingham Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Civil rights movements Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Nineteen sixty-three, A.D Race relations Shuttlesworth, Fred L 1922-2011 Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Filter By Authors
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Abernathy, Ralph 1926-1990 Alabama Birmingham Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Civil rights movements Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Nineteen sixty-three, A.D Race relations Shuttlesworth, Fred L 1922-2011 Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Filter By Authors
Kix, PaulSummary: Contains interviews with some of the protesters. In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This lead to President Kennedy sponsoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the march on Washington. Portions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIGKix, Paul
Summary: It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023