1 avr. 1963 - Birmingham protests/Bull Connor

Description:

• George Wallace: Alabama governor
• Eugene "Bull" Connor: Commissioner of Public Safety
• Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a demonstration in Birmingham to raise awareness and goes to jail
• White clergymen publish a criticism to MLK's demonstrations
• MLK writes a response while in solitary confinement
• MLK organizes a "Children's March" after being arrested
• Children from elementary to high school march and are arrested. The goal is to fill the jails and get some sypathy.
• Children meet at the 16th Street Baptist Church
• Bull Connor ordered dogs and water hoses on the demonstrators
• This reaches national news and raises awareness
• All jails in the city were filled
• The city began to negotiate
• The KKK bombed a room MLK was in
• Angry blacks start rioting
• JFK addresses the nation of television and proposes a bill

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