Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hooligans jumped the ministers and beat them mercilessly. From inside the Silver Moon, customers could see the fight-but not one lifted a hand to help. Reeb's friends dragged themselves to their feet, stumbled for 2½ blocks before they found help. As they sped toward Birmingham, their ambulance got a flat; they had to wait for another ambulance to pick them...
...Late for Segregation. Whether moved by courage or realism, some papers have made surprising changes. Alabama's biggest daily, the Birmingham News, which used to make a practice of parroting the segregationist line, has covered the trouble in Selma fully and fairly and has run some thoughtful analyses of civil rights problems. "Whatever progress this state has made is imperiled when an atmosphere of hatred and fear is allowed to prevail," said the News in an editorial. "That atmosphere is thickened, not dispelled, by intemperate actions of uniformed law officers of the state of Alabama, its counties...
Lynch parties are no longer frequent, but the murder of Negroes and civil rights workers continues unchecked. Some examples since 1961: Herbert Lee and Louis Allen, both shot to death near Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall...
Next day, Montgomery's Alabama Journal called the violence in Marion "a nightmare of state police stupidity" and "the worst outrage since the church bombing in Birmingham." Said the paper: "Alabama is, once again and worse than ever before, disgraced by mindless 'police work' and blood...
...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...