SOCIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Birmingham Campaign, Bull Connor, Master Sergeant
18 Dec 2019
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Local strategy remained paramount even when the crm became national: directed at the econ elite, translated into specific demands desegregation of lunch counters and public facilities in. Leaders thought feds would only do this if they sparked movements elsewhere. Proponents say he picked it bc bull connor, but he had already left. Lacked political power, but had economic power: all concentration was on affecting the ebb and flow of the commerce and industry. The boycott alone could not achieve their goals: overall strategy called for the creation of widespread social disorder. Sit ins and picketing designed to disrupt business activities. Violence was anticipated concern was not how to provoke it but how to handle it: had to consider how many deaths could lead to the survival of the campaign. The q was whether the campaign could withstand systematic repression: whether birminghams social control agents could defeat the campaign through violence.
