Have You Heard from Johannesburg - Birmingham Civil Rights ...

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International Legacy Youth Leadership Project participants, along with their Birmingham, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa communities, examined two major social movements of the Twentieth Century — the United States Civil Rights Movement and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement. The project took place in 2011.
In May 1963, the eyes of the world were on Birmingham and young people spilling out of school windows, protesting the city’s segregation laws and customs. Success for the Birmingham Movement hinged on the participation of thousands to fill the city’s jails. Therefore, it hinged on the youth — students who left home in the morning with toothbrushes in their pockets, aiming to get arrested by Commissioner “Bull” Connor’s police force. Prepared to confront brutality, they did not expect trained attack dogs or fire hose water streams powerful enough to de-bark trees. And yet, Birmingham, often called the Johannesburg of the South, would never be the same. Youth were injured, hundreds were detained and thousands went to jail. The back of segregation was broken, and though it effectively hobbled along for years, demonstrators for change could claim victory.
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