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Birmingham Campaign

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Birmingham Campaign

  • The campaign was originally scheduled to begin in early March 1963
  • SCLC organizer James Bevel proposed using young children in demonstrations.
  • ACMHR, ‘‘Birmingham Manifesto,’’ 3 April 1963..
  • ‘‘The Birmingham Truce Agreement,’’ 10 May 1963, in Eyes on the Prize
  •  King was arrested in Birmingham
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  • In 1963, Birmingham became a focus for the civil rights movement.
  •  as a city had made its mark on the civil rights movement for a number of years.
  • It was a KKK stronghold and America’s worst city for racism
  • SCLC’s campaign in Birmingham was better planned but not without problems
  • The SCLC had gauged Connor correctly
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  • Stores were desegregated
  • opportunities for African Americans in jobs "improved"
  • 1100 students from city schools and colleges.
  • 500 youths were arrested and jailed
  • the KKK had castrated an African American;
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