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I see trouble in the air
irmingham, 1963
Birmingham really pulled together this coalition o f conscience which ran this
nation from 1963 until the time o f Vietnam, in say, sixty-six. That’s three years.
That coalition o f conscience and good w ill passed the Civil Rights Act o f 1964,
which not only desegregated public accommodations but gave new statutes in
terms o f school desegregation and desegregated jo b s .. . . Whether you agree
with it philosophically or not, practically the only thing that would have worked
in the South was a nonviolent approach to social change.”
M o n than 5,000 people. Including children end the elderly, went to Jell In Bir
mingham. The full force of the polloe wee ueed againat them Including doge end
fire hoeee.
—Andrew Young
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'When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a
sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied.
When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does
not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull
away from a soulless society. The process produces alienation—perhaps the
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most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society.1
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