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23. I watched PBS specials last night.

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:45 PM

Jan 2018

First one about James Bladwin and his interaction with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers. The second was about how Blacks and some Whites in Birmingham stood up to bull Connor and launched a consumer boycott that brought commerce in the city down 40%. For someone who only read about that era in books, I was amazed at how badly the deck was stacked against Blacks and how bravely Blacks fought back, even when they did so without national notice. When a guy tell you to be out of town before the next sunrise and you know that he can back that up by having you murdered, it takes major cahones to stand up to him even in the smallest ways.

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I watched PBS specials last night. Blue_true Jan 2018 #23

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The Birmingham economic boycott was done before MLK and Lewis entered. Blue_true Jan 2018 #33

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