May 03 2010
Subversive Historian – 05/03/10
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Bull Connor’s Repression
Back in the day on May 3rd, 1963, a civil rights demonstration during the Birmingham Campaign was violently repressed in Alabama. The activist effort of the Southern Christian Leadership sought to expose and challenge the segregationist system of the southern city. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow organizers launched “Project C” for ‘confrontation,’ …
Bull Connor’s Repression
Back in the day on May 3rd, 1963, a civil rights demonstration during the Birmingham Campaign was violently repressed in Alabama. The activist effort of the Southern Christian Leadership sought to expose and challenge the segregationist system of the southern city. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow organizers launched “Project C” for ‘confrontation,’ …
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