THTR1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Port Huron Statement, Chicago Freedom Movement, Silent Majority
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Identify the major events in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. The rising tide of protest: the congress of racial equality (core) organized the freedom rides in: as protests escalated, so did the resistance of local authorities. Birmingham: the high point of protest came in the spring of 1963. Martin luther king jr. led a demonstration in birmingham, King made the bold decision to send black school children into the streets of birmingham. Bull connor unleashed his forces against the children. the events in. Birmingham forced white americans to decide whether they had more in common with fellow citizens demanding their basic rights or violent segregationists. The march on washington was organized by a coalition of civil rights, labor, and church organization. The march on washington re ected an unprecedented degree of black-white cooperation in support of racial and economic justice, while revealing some of the movement"s limitations and the tensions within it.
