We still find that people in those communities are saying thats an old case. We dont need to revive it. Why bring up the past . Lets let it go. Lets let god take care of it. And i answer did not god give us a mind . Did not god give us the strength . Why are we depending on that . That can bring closure, i feel, to all of these negatives that still float around in the air, whether they be in mississippi or whether it be in other parts of this country. It was the same thing that was told to me. Years and years i searched for evidence that would help us get a third trial with medgars assassin. People said youre crazy, youre living in the past. Youve got to move away from it. I cant help you. I wont help you. And this one word, one word that medgar had and i had, and i hope all of us want to make positive changes will have, and thats perseverance. A believing in something, a being determined, having that vision. Being determined of seeing that vision comes into being. And assessing whatev
Morgan college, loyola and johns hopkins, they decided they were going to stop taking no for answer answer and they were going to get this thing done. By this point, other businesses in the downtown, including drug steers, even some other theaters, they were already getting desegregated. But the northwood theater was a holdout. The students and the civil rights activists ramped up their protests that february. They ramped up into a confrontation that looked like this. On the left there, the white guy with the cigar is obviously from the theater, he is standing in the door of the theater, telling this orderly cue of wouldbe black patrons, no, you are not getting in. This is from the Baltimore Sun at the time. They kept up their demand to be let in, day after day. The theater kept saying no. The police started arresting people. At first by the dozens and ultimately by the hundreds as these protests stretched on increasing in size for a week. The Baltimore Sun said the police started to r
it s not always remembered that the most horrifying images of fire hoses and dogs, were from the time that fire hoses and dogs were turned on kids. they not only hit kids with fire hoses. this famous image of walter gadson being bitten by a police dog, he was a high schoolkid. he was one of the older kids at that protest. and they did not just unleash that violence on those kids. they arrested them. they put hundreds and hundreds of children in jail in birmingham, they used school buses to pick up kids from the demonstration that they had hit them with fire hoses and dogs at the demonstration and arrested them, they hauled those kids into the jail. they filled the jail cells, dozens of kids crammed into individual adult cells. they put hundreds of kids into pens. children, and they held them in jail. and they set bail for them. of course, the way the bail
the most horrifying images of fire hoses and dogs, were from the time that fire hoses and dogs were turned on kids. they not only hit kids with fire hoses. this famous image of walter gadson being bitten by a police dog, he was a high schoolkid. he was one of the older kids at that protest. and they did not just unleash that violence on those kids. they arrested them. they put hundreds and hundreds of children in jail in birmingham, they used school buses to pick up kids from the demonstration that they had hit them with fire hoses and dogs at the demonstration and arrested them, they hauled those kids into the jail. they filled the jail cells,