To the august 1963 march on washington. The report ends with president kennedys june 11, 1963 appeal for civil rights legislation and statements by several u. S. Senators arguing for and against it. We have seen the revolution began in many ways. And the course of this following has many tributaries. Now we are concerned with its effects, which we said are not uniform. One of the difficult fights but one in which the negro has scored impressive gains is in shattering what reverend king has fault the appalling apathy of the good people. Birmingham helped shatter that apathy. Sometime or other, we are going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose. Leaders of all three states decided they must do something, not to say something. Soon, many white clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks of pickets. Until then, Church Action have been limited to a few fronts. Among them, new orleans. It was three years ago that desegregation came to the dee
Torah, visit cspan. Org cities tour. We continue with our look at the history of chapel hill. We are in chapel hill, North Carolina at the Marion Cheek Jackson Center. The Marion Cheek Jackson Center is a place where we preserve the side and 10he north top communities. Buying me are photographs of the Civil Rights Movement that took thee here in chapel hill in 1960s. In the 1960s chapel hill was segregated. People could not go into stores, the schools were segregated. It will be theaters, all things were segregated. , again, a time when black people had to create their own community. In this particular community they built their home, they had a business district. Had one school, they had their churches that everyone attended. There was a very closeknit community. What got the ball rolling here in chapel hill during the Civil Rights Movement was, after the greensboro sit in, there were a group of guys that got together and they decided they needed to do something here in chapel hill to
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