AF AMER 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Angela Davis, Black Body, Black Nationalism
24 Aug 2016
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Think about the people who lost their lives during the process. They had to show what was actually going on ,ripping the bener to show the federal gov to come in bc state govt didn"t prosecute. Ex) people violent people acting retribution to the northern people who came, the police force was complicit what"s appening. They acquitted people who they knew committed a death of a black person. March was seen on national tv, and had 3 attempts from selma to montgomery. We know people we dying being oppressed and repressed in order to put pressure on the southern states to change, basis for fed gov. There had to be the spectacle of violence, violence was a controlled accident. Church was bombed 4 girls died and others injured kkk was the people who initiated it. Under the fed gov, the master mind was convicted in 1977, l. It took decades to bring these people to justice.
