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| “Selma” |
-march from Selma to Montgomery
-600 marchers
-at bridge, confronted by AL state police
-tear gas, cattle prods, bull whips
-televised
-LBJ had to respond "not negro problem, American problem"
-remarched in March with AL national guard protection
-made it to Montgomery
-by Sheyann Webb
-12 year old girl
-very quiet
-troopers put on masks
-tear gas, horsemen, clubs, whips
-2nd march 2 weeks later
-many more people from across country
-whites, too
-rally at Montgomery with MLK afterward
-triumph for nonviolence |
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| “Testimony Before the DNC” by Fannie Lou Hamer and Rita Schwerner |
-SNCC workers got enough votes for delegation at DNC in Atlantic City
-challenge all-white regulars
-hoped to be seated
-FLH explicated horrors of trying to vote
-literacy test, fined, 4 people shot, abuse from policemen, Medgar Evers shot, arrested, abused in prison, skirt pulled up
-Schwerner explicated what happened to C, G, S
-she wanted to see Gov. Jackson of MS
-went with MLK to Governor's mansion--> door slammed in face
-no death certificate, no help from MS officials |
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| “Letters from Mississippi” |
-1964 Freedom Summer
-create alternative to all-white MS Democratic Party
-challenge delegation at DNC in Atlantic City
-non violent
-wanted to establish MS Freedom Democratic Party
-no ethnic barriers
-volunteers faced abuse, harassment, 3 murders
-training at Oxford (simulated beatings by other students, chanting mobs, ready for anything)
-shook hands w/ blacks
-murders of C, S, G
-David Dennis of CORE gave passionate speech at James Chaney's funeral |
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| “Wake Up America” by John Lewis* |
-critque of proposed civil rights bill that eventually passed in 1964
-under JFK
-very critical of gov't, mvt |
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| “The Freedom Rides” |
-James Farmer national director of CORE
-JFK refused to enforce SC decision to desegregate interstate busing
-worked w/ SNCC's John Lewis
-DC to Atlanta
-black and white volunteers
-Greyhound buses
-nonviolent
-sit any where, nonsegregated facilities
-VA, NC were fine
-SC John Lewis got beaten up
-met with MLK at end in Atlanta |
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| “SNCC: Founding Statement” |
-Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
-non-violence
-Judeo-Christian tradition
-love, hope, faith, justice |
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| “The Jackson Sit-In” by Anne Moody |
-sit-in at lunch counter
-local Woolworth's
-Jackson, MS
-NAACP event
-Anne Moody in position to go to jail
-went to lunch counter w/ other blacks
-at first, some support from whites
-students that reacted
-students started chanting anti-negro slogans
-Anne got slapped in face
-hair pulled
-bloody battle
-90 policemen standing outside; didn't do anything
-thought MS whites sick |
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| “The Power of Non-Violence” by MLK |
-outlines principles of nonviolent resistance
-victory can be achieved thru love, peace, nonaggression
-win friendship and understanding
-attack evil system rather than individuals caught up in it
-agape Greek love
don't HAVE to believe in God, but some form of ultimate justice
-many references to God |
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