Martin Luther King Jr
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is Birmingham the Hardest Nut to Crack?
King came to birmingham 63, just before the marshal washington that we're building up to. It was the most oppressive, races, segregated city in the united states at that time. Bull connor gave the movement its biggest thrust without him probably even knowing it. He would call the birmingham black bearing gangs. If they hit a home run and it went into the black section, he was theo. And so if you wanted to show the world how bad it is in the south where african americans birmingham was the place do it.
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