A Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Rep. Jackie Speier relates events surrounding the fight for voting rights in 1965. Please don't let this struggle be in vain.
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Poet Dudley Randall tells the story of the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church in his Ballad of Birmingham: http://t.co/OYS565qB #FPI2012 -
@MarthaPlimpton Thank you for your support! Call on Rush's sponsors to pull their ads- it's time to stop the misogynistic hate speech.
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ICYMI –this is the speech I gave to call out Rush Limbaugh for his misogynistic hate speech http://t.co/oLwnK0ja
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We are standing at C R Memorial with Ethel Kennedy. Memorial has names of Blacks and Whites slain http://t.co/nFLNdTwz
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First Baptist Church provided us with a southern lunch. Here is where the civil rights movement had its roots.
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Bob Cleaner speaks of his KKK father and his first meeting with MLK at First Baptist Church.
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Police circled the church to arrest Zellner and the other white students who were there to write a sociology paper on race.
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Klan burned crosses around the dorm where the students lived and the students were asked to leave the college.
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John Lewis speaking of his life with MLK. March 1958 traveled by bus to Montgomery to meet MLK. "Are you the boy from Troy?"
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1961--arrives in Montgomery by bus. Press is brutalized, Freedom riders were attacked.
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They meet at First Baptist Church, disguised as members of choir. Mob outside.
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Rosa Parks and Rev. Abernathy sneak them out the back door while MLK goes out front door.
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The Freedom Riders decide to continue their bus ride.
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