CSPAN3 Reel America The American Revolution Of 63 Part 3 - NBC News Report July 12, 2024
Birmingham helped shatter that apathy. Sometime or other, we are going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose. Leaders of all three states decided they must do something, not to say something. Soon, many white clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks of pickets. Until then, Church Action have been limited to a few fronts. Among them, new orleans. It was three years ago that desegregation came to the deep south. It happened in new orleans. The battle developed within the White Community, those who saw desegregation as an eventuality with which...