Of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christian Movement for human rights to launch the Birmingham Campaign together, they sought to Bring National attention to the efforts to desegregate public facilities in
My my name is wayne coleman, head of archives here at the institute. And i want to welcome all you to tonights event event as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christia
My my name is wayne coleman, head of archives here at the institute. And i want to welcome all you to tonights event event as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christia
But then one of the governors aides suggest he listen more closely to the line that follows in birmingham they love the governor. The next line anybody remember . Boo, boo, boo. Sung by a group of female africanamerican backup singers. Including, by the way, the great mary clayton who originated the role of the acid queen in the whos tommy. That has nothing to do with what were talking about tonight. I just think thats a cool fact. So ronny and the boys never got their citation from the governor. We have chosen this line as the title for our program tonight because it is like the legacy of George Wallace debated, parsed, and still relevant in the 21st century america. We are fortunate to have three respected and accomplished scholars with us tonight to explore the role of George Wallace in birmingham civil rights struggle and the legacy of wallace in our politics and culture today. Our first speaker will be dan t. Carter. He has served as professor and visiting scholar at emory univers
Related to George Wallace. And the larger time frame of 1963 or the 1960s and alabama. George wallace is one of probably the most influential and well known politicians that comes out of the state. He hes governor for four terms, two consecutive terms and then two additional terms. And is involved in a lot of what is happening in the early 60s. He also makes two very influential runs for president in 1968 and 1972. He makes additional runs in 1964 and 1976. But the two that really shape american politics were the 1968 and 1972 campaigns. First thing id like to show you is governor wallaces inaugural address. This is his first inaugural address that he presented on january 14th, 1963. So this is the moment where we really see his first stance as sort of a hardline segregationist, and where we start to see this rhetoric that is going to make him a notable figure, not only in alabama politics, but in National Politics. Elections in d. C. Is distressing and revealing. We will not sacrifice