Great article. 1. The Selma voting rights campaign started long before the modern Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, her husband Samuel William Boynton, and other African American activists founded the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) in the 1930s. The DCVL became the base for a group of activists who pursued voting rights and economic independence. Shown, Amelia Boynton Robinson, a decade before she started her voting rights work in the 1930s. Also looks at the pervasive state and vigilante violence used to keep African-Americans down. The threat of violence and retaliation was so strong that most African Americans were afraid to attend a mass meeting. ... The voting registrar’s office [of Dallas County, Alabama] was only open twice a month on the first and third Monday and potential applicants were routinely and arbitrarily rejected, even when they were well-educated. Some were physically attacked and others were fired from their jobs. ... white officials had fired teachers for trying to register and regularly arrested SNCC workers, sometimes beating them in jail. In one instance, a police officer knocked a 19-year-old girl unconscious and brutalized her with a cattle prod. Also talks about FBI refusal to intervene. teachingforchange.org/selma-bottom-up-history
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:08:00 +0000
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