Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
John M. Giggie
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2024
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9780197766699
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9780197766668
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Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
John M. Giggie
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Abstract
In reaction to the sacking of First African Baptist Church by the police and white Tuscaloosans, the Black church community armed themselves, and formed an armed self-defense group called the Defenders. In addition to these protective measures, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. sent three of his most reliable SCLC workers—James Bevel, Harold Middlebrook, and Richard Boone—to help not only sustain the movement in Tuscaloosa, but also over see the birth of a more aggressive campaign of boycotting and marching and filing a series of lawsuits. A story of a new mass meeting at a different church, Bailey Tabernacle CME Church, and the efforts of police to stop it, are covered. Reverend Rogers has mixed feelings about the Defenders and the increasing purchase and ownership of guns by Blacks, even as he and his family suffered from the constant stress of knowing they were targets for the Klan, despite being guarded by the Defenders. Reverend Rogers comes to see the necessity of ideological flexibility on issues of non-violent social change, and greets the passage of the Civil Rights Act with a mix of joy and caution, as knew that the fight for civil rights was still far from over.
Keywords: Reverend T. Y. Rogers, Police Chief William Marable, Black armed self-defense, armed self-defense, violence, civil rights, Tuscaloosa Citizens for Action Committee, Tuscaloosa Defenders, James Bevel, Harold Middlebrook, Richard Boone
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History of the Americas
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