SCLC, King and African American Civil Rights
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 02-06-17 17:29
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- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and King
- Mass demonstrations
- Broader appeal for change
- Awareness Kennedy, elected 1960, more in mood for change
- Non-violent
- Looked for white liberal support
- Won support from organised religion in South
- Demonstrate mass feeling
- Looked to invoke constitutional right of freedom of expression over local state laws which prevented demonstrations
- First in Albany, Georgia in 1961
- Thwarted by careful preparation from local police chief, Laurie Prichett, who restrained men and sure to have King released following initial arrest
- Birmingham
- Police Chief Connor obliged use of force
- All more shocking since organisers used children to carry on protest when adult marches and sit-ins were failing
- King gained maximum publicity from arrest and time in Birmingham jail
- Police Chief Connor obliged use of force
- March on Washington
- August 1963
- Greatest expression of non-violent, multiracial protest with various organisations together
- King's rhetoric, numbers, publicity and support of presidency came together to create event seen as historic and watched throughout world
- Won white support
- Key element was to gather white support
- Strongest support since Reconstruction
- 1964
- March in St Augustine, world saw spectacle of 72-year-old mother (Mary Parkman Peabody) of governor of Massachusetts (Endicott Peabody) being arrested for breaking segregation laws which seemed part of a remote and unsavoury past
- Mass demonstrations
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