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Letter from Brimingham Jail - Coggle Diagram
Letter from Brimingham Jail
Serves as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Has 85 affiliated organizations across the south including the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Shares staff, education, and financial services
Brimingham asked them to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program that deemed necessary
The Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience
Has organizational ties int the south
Injustices happening in the South
Can't afford to live with narrow, provincial "outside agitator"
City's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternatives
Negro leaders tried to negotiate with city fathers, but the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiations.
Promises were made to remove stores humiliating racial signs
All segregation statues are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.
Nonviolent Direct Action
Demonstrations
Engaged in a direct action campaign that was "well timed"
Justice too long is justice denied.
For years had to hear the word "wait", but wait almost always means never
Having hope while waiting 340 years for constitutional and God given rights
Grateful to God, through the influence of the Negro church the way of nonviolence became integral part of their struggle
Violence and prejudice shown to people of color
Freedom is never voluntary given to the oppressor
Had to watch their mother's and father's be lynched. Sisters and brother's drowned just because
police cursed, beat, kicked and killed their loved ones
Not being allowed in public places like amusement parks because no coloreds were allowed
Being called names like "N
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r" and "boy", and constantly being made to feel like nobodies
Having to explain to your children the flaws of being a black person and them asking you why white people treat black people so bad
harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a negro, living constantly at a tie toe stance, never knowing what would happen next, and are plagued by inner fears and outer resentments
having to watch your twenty million negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty