The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern...
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letter, written in response to "A Call for Unity" during the 1963 Birmingham campaign, was widely published, and became an important text for the civil...
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Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's...
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Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋəm/ BUR-ming-əm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest...
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Bull Connor (category Birmingham campaign)
denied civil rights to black citizens, especially during 1963's Birmingham campaign led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He is well known...
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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and a leader of the Birmingham campaign during the civil rights movement. The airport carries the designation...
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing (redirect from Birmingham church bombing)
engaged in within Birmingham was crucial to the movement as the Birmingham campaign was seen as guidance for other cities in the South with regards to...
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"sit-ins" in Greensboro and Nashville, a series of protests during the Birmingham campaign, and a march from Selma to Montgomery. The movement was led by Martin...
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The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and...
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Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and others of the Civil Rights Movement...
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Martin Luther King Jr. (category Birmingham campaign)
April 1963, the SCLC began a campaign against racial segregation and economic injustice in Birmingham, Alabama. The campaign used nonviolent but intentionally...
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established in 2017 to preserve and commemorate the work of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade, and other Civil Rights Movement events and...
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A. D. King (category Birmingham campaign)
1963, King became a leader of the Birmingham campaign, while pastoring at First Baptist Church of Ensley in Birmingham, Alabama. On May 11, 1963, King's...
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Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small...
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Fred Shuttlesworth (category Birmingham campaign)
remained active in Birmingham. In 1963, he initiated and was instrumental in the Birmingham Campaign. He returned from Cincinnati to Birmingham after his retirement...
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Project Birmingham is believed to have spent $100,000, as compared to total expenditures of roughly $51 million for the entire election campaign. Republican...
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Why We Can't Wait (section Birmingham)
racial segregation in the United States, and specifically the 1963 Birmingham campaign. The book describes 1963 as a landmark year in the civil rights movement...
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particular had become well known for his role in the Birmingham campaign and for his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Wilkins and Young initially objected to Rustin...
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blacklisted during the McCarthy era. During the 1963 Birmingham campaign, Belafonte bailed King out of the Birmingham, Alabama jail and raised $50,000 to release...
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Birmingham campaign)
the subsequent Birmingham Campaign can be attributed to lessons learned in Albany. By contrast, the 1963 SCLC campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, was an...
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The Birmingham Six were six Northern Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham...
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Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the...
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A. G. Gaston (category Birmingham campaign)
established businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. He had a significant role in the movement to remove legal barriers to integration in Birmingham in 1963. In his lifetime...
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11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local African-Americans burned businesses and fought...
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its title from Letter from Birmingham Jail, an open letter in response to "A Call for Unity" during the Birmingham campaign, penned on April 16, 1963 by...
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control (see also water cannon), including by Bull Connor in the Birmingham campaign against protesters during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Until...
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King's Birmingham campaign. Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Richard Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that...
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Children's Crusade (1963) (redirect from Birmingham Children's Crusade)
Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel...
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Rights Movement Birmingham campaign Mass racial violence in the United States Death spares scrutiny of Cash in bomb probe: The Birmingham News Archived...
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Siôn Simon (category Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands)
2010. He stood down at the 2010 general election to campaign for a directly elected mayor of Birmingham, with the intent of standing in the first election...
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