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[https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/1 by eji 1/2/1965] | [https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/1 by eji 1/2/1965] | ||
In early 1965, civil rights groups including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began concentrating on voter registration in Selma, Alabama—a city with the lowest voter registration record in the state's Black Belt region. | In early 1965, civil rights groups including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began concentrating on voter registration in Selma, Alabama—a city with the lowest voter registration record in the state's Black Belt region. | ||
=====Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/collection/dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
King of the North fundamentally reshapes how we understand the evolution of Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics and partnerships. While most accounts frame King’s activism as a Southern story culminating in the March on Washington, Theoharis insists we follow him north — into the segregated schools, redlined housing, and brutally policed neighborhoods of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and beyond. | |||
