Tengowski

1.  Freedom Riders
 Protesting segregation
in Interstate Travel
 Traveling from D.C. to
New Orleans
 May 14-buses split in
Alabama
 Buses firebombed in
Anniston
 Birmingham-the police
were given the day off
by Governor George
Wallace

3.  When you go
looking for trouble
you usually find
it…You just can
guarantee the safety
of a fool and that’s
what these people
are…fools.

4.  King described Birmingham as the “most racist
city in the US”

5.  Nicknamed
“Bombingham”
 Since 1957 over 50 cross
burnings and 18
bombings
 Police Commissioner
Eugene “Bull” Connor
arrests 2200 over 5 weeks
 Protest w/ Children
 Fire Hoses, Electric Cattle
Prods, Attack Dogs

10.  We preach freedom around the world, and we
mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at
home; but are we to say to the world, and,
much more importantly, for each other, that
this is a land of the free except for the Negroes;
that we have no second-class citizens except
Negroes; that we have no class or caste system,
no ghettos, no master race, except with respect
to Negroes?

12.  August 28, 1963
 Over 250,000 people
in attendance
 Helps pass the Civil
Rights Act of 1964