Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Alabama
In 1954, Martin Luther King began his first full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While at Dexter, King became president of...
Author : joe bodego
EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon...
CORDY TINDELL “C.T.” VIVIAN
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Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian was an influential leader in the American civil rights movement. Born on July 30, 1924, in Missouri, Vivian dedicated his life...
Ku Klux Klan Act
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With the passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law,...
Force Acts
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Congress enacted three statutes in 1870 and 1871 to protect the right of blacks to vote in the southern states and to suppress anti-reconstruction terrorism....
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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My Dear Fellow Clergymen While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.”...
The Poor People’s Campaign
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The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) was created on December 4, 1967, by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to address the issues of unemployment, housing...
Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over...