Dr. King and another protester were arrested, and Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed. The first group of approximately 500 Civil Rights advocates left Brown Chapel on March 7 and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to march along US Rte. 80 to Montgomery, the State capital. Alabama State Police blocked the road and ordered the assembled marchers to disperse. When the marchers refused, the troopers attacked and beat them, and forced them back to Brown Chapel, this was called “Bloody Sunday.” A second march occurred on March 9, but only as far as the Pettis Bridge.
The images of Alabama law enforcement beating the nonviolent protesters were shown all over the country and the world by television networks and newspapers. The visuals of such brutality being carried out by the state of Alabama helped shift the image of the segregationist movement from one of a movement trying to preserve the social order of the South to a system of state-endorsed terrorism against non-whites. [23] The marches also had a powerful effect in Washington. After witnessing TV coverage of "Bloody Sunday," President Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Governor George Wallace in Washington to discuss with him the civil rights situation in his state. He tried to persuade Wallace to stop the state harassment of the protesters.
Alex Dunham WRA 125 Professor Patrick LeBeau 23 September 2004 Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a brilliant example of a rhetorical essay. From 1955 to 1968, in Southern America, black people were harshly segregated and discriminated against. Dr King used his methods of nonviolent civil disobedience to rally the oppressed negro community and try to show America that segregation is wrong and could no longer be stood for. King wrote the letter to southern clergyman from a Birmingham jail, where he was sent after a peaceful parade to stop segregation. Authorities charged him with lacking the possession of a parade permit.
This would become more apparent after James Meredith, who started a March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson in 1966, to protest against racism, and subsequently was shot down . Carmichael along with others picked up where Meredith left off; by the time the marchers arrived in Greenwood, Mississippi; they were arrested by the police. After Carmichaels release from jail, he would make his famous “Black Power” speech in which he called for "black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, and to build a sense of community.” Even though this slogan had been used before by Richard Wright and others, this was a first for the Civil Rights Movement. From here, Carmichael’s outlook would change and he would start looking at it from a self-defense aspect and trying to rally young blacks to his cry for revolution. He started to unite these young men and women under the motto of “Black Power,” in order to develop real power within their community and prove to not only them, but also the rest of the nation that Blacks would no longer step aside and allow the Whites to continue to manipulate and dominate a system that would hinder not only them, but the Civil Rights Movement as well.
On Sunday March 7, 1965, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Council without the help of Martin Luther King did a march along highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, The Capital. Demonstrators began the march from Selma to the State Capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the demonstrators were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies, right in front of the media for the whole Country to see. This caused a huge uproar all over, after viewing “Bloody Sunday”; many people came to join the cause and wanted to march again with SNCC and SCLC.
He was the man, who applied with non-violent tactic to led many protests and boycotts. Under King’s leadership and many other dedicated men and women, the public facilities like schools, restaurants, and transportations eventually became integrated. One of the incident took place in Little Rock, Arkansas. When Arkansas governor Faubus called out the national guard to prevent nine black students from entering little rock’s central high school. His action received the attention of a federal judge, who ordered governor Faubus to withdraw the national guard.
“We Shall Over Come” March 15, 1965, a week after deadly racial violence broke out in Alabama between police and African Americans who were preparing to protest for their right to vote, Lyndon B. Johnson (L.B.J) pleaded to the American people for peace and equal rights for all Americans no matter their race or religion in a speech. In this speech, titled “We Shall Over Come”, L.B.J touches on the constitutional rights that are given to all Americans without any specifications regarding race or religion by our forefathers. After all, America was founded by people who believed in freedom for all and fled their homelands to do lack of religious and other freedoms. L.B.J also recognized the concerns of some Americans when it came to African Americans
In May 1966, I was elected national chairman of SNCC. I began to lose my faith in the nonviolent approach after the death of civil right activist James Meredith. I wanted organize a march in greenwood, Mississippi. Once I arrived I was furious and stated that we been saying Freedom for the past six years but now we will say Black Power. Black Power was a call to unite, to recognize our heritage,
to focus on the need to pass the Civil Rights Bill. Leaders also felt as though it was a good time to tell the government how little it had done to end segregation. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., over 250,000 people gathered to walk in organized, orderly groups toward the Lincoln Memorial. It was at this march where protestors heard King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech in which he stated, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.'" This became one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in the history of the United
Sadly, this is the best news the nation heard in days following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a religious leader and civil rights activist who led the civil right movement in the 1950s. His actions led to the success of legal segregation of African Americans in the south, especially. Dr. King fronted a host of demonstrations to include the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. The objective was to contest segregation on the public bus system. The Civil Rights activists believed there was a need after Rosa Parks, an African American woman decided not to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus, which ultimately led to her arrest.