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Posted By Spadecaller 1 year, 2 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentAttempts to suppress African-Americans from voting should never be dismissed or ignored. This music video featuring Joan Baez is about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that occurred in Alabama. Many civil rights leaders used the church as a meeting-place; among them were Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth. Tensions became high in ’63 when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African American voters.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 2 months ago
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I remember that day, it was my birthday. Except I didn't feel much like celebrating, that year !!!!
How do you celebrate getting another year older, when young people around your age are murdered ????? Then a couple of months later Mr. Kennedy was assassinated !!!!
'63 was a bad year except for the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan.
Maybe this is the year we celebrate the march to freedom, when all Americans can see that this nation can and will be free from the tyranny of the racist fear mongers who hate based on color, their own !!!!!
Well done my friend.
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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I'm certainly old enough to remember the bombing but where I worked with blacks in the north, I could not understand it because I never had any problems with them. I guess because I always treated them as equal and they returned the favor.
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As for Wallace, from reading some of the comments about Obama, I think he still lives in a lot of them.
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