The Birmingham Campaign

[one...two...tree 2,762]

In the spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement: Project C, better known as The Birmingham Campaign. It would be the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city.

Over the next couple months, the peaceful demonstrations would be met with violent attacks using high-pressure fire hoses and police dogs on men, women and children alike -- producing some of the most iconic and troubling images of the Civil Rights Movement. President John F. Kennedy would later say, "The events in Birmingham... have so increased the cries for equality that no city or state or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them." It is considered one of the major turning points in the Civil Rights Movement and the "beginning of the end" of a centuries-long struggle for freedom.

http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement-birmingham-campaign/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=bcc_explore_birmingham_campaign

[mota bhai 2,675]

Did I wander into a remedial history class?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Did I wander into a remedial history class?

This day in history, April 3, 1963. It's kind of important in the context of our current affairs.

[mota bhai 2,675]

This day in history, April 3, 1963. It's kind of important in the context of our current affairs.

Quit race baiting, whiteboy.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I love lunch counters. I also want to try eating at an automat.

[Operator 1,927]

I'm fixin to go sit at a lunch counter

Current event, bamm!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I can imagine that some here look at these pictures and think to themselves: Ah, the good old days.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I was thinking the guy on the right in the last pic is now all grown up and posting on VJ.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I was thinking the guy on the right in the last pic is now all grown up and posting on VJ.

Yup.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Guy on the right has serial killer handwriting.

But in all seriousness, my heart breaks for those two older gentlemen sitting at the counter by themselves.