Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birmingham belonged to outsiders last week. They kept the peace-a surly, smoldering lull that fooled no one. State policemen, who had rushed into town to club down rioting Negroes at dawn on Mother's Day, still patrolled the streets, armed with carbines, pistols and shotguns. At any sign of unrest, they stomped about shouting threats, shoving Negroes into doorways and menacingly snapping the safety catches off their weapons. They were 700 strong, ordered into town by Governor George C. Wallace, a militant segregationist who seemed to be spoiling for a fight...
...Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlanta integration leader who started the massive Birmingham demonstrations six weeks ago, pleaded for peace in a pilgrimage through Negro district pool halls. Facing embarrassed pool sharks, he said, "We want to thank you for taking time off from your pool game to listen to us. We must make it clear that it is possible to fight against all this evil without having to resort to violence." And at another meeting. King shouted: "Violence is immoral, but not only that-violence is impractical...
...Birmingham, the Pittsburgh of the South, may be facing the problems of Montgomery and Albany in just two or three months. At that time some provisions of the desegregation pact are to go into effect. If the white businessmen back down on their agreements, and the Negroes lack the organizations to force compliance, Birmingham will be just another failure in the non-violent integration movement. This can only be prevented if King, Shuttlesworth, Abernathy. and the other leaders act now to create a Birmingham Committee for integration with active executives and members from Birmingham...
...potential new leaders are already in the churches, the steel unions, and the present Birmingham movement. The active members have already shown themselves by demonstrating, at the risk of arrest, in the city's streets. What remains now is to make the potential into the real...
Approximately 2,000 soldiers were poised at two military bases within 100 miles of Birmingham. They were ready to enter the city if President Kennedy decides they are needed to keep order...