Throwing Children in Jail, MLK's secret weapon on Racism!

[totakeke]

I object strongly to the wording used here. MLK Jr did not "throw" anyone in jail. The oppressors did. This wording used has a very negative connotation to it and I'm willing to bet the person who wrote the title of this video actually has a hidden agenda. MLK did not do anything wrong or put anyone in danger, the police and the racists did. Telling people they should exercise their rights by walking in white-only public areas is NOT wrong. You are victim blaming and that's despicable.

[animeartist304]

during the second day of the march, at a park that seperated the white territory from the black territroy, the whites would use fire hoses against the blacks- about 1000 people down to the ground because of pressure and the water- but 10 were left standing

they would hold hands shouting "FREEDOM, FREEDOM" knowing they were going to jail

about1,500 kids, yes , kids were sent to jail on that day... standing up for their rights

[animeartist304]

standing up for their rights is what i call being a true american

proud to be black- MLK

[Aetius76]

AWESOME, and I mean AWESOME, video Tarrin!!! I was looking for something to explain and DISPLAY the Birmingham march and struggle to my 10th Grade History class and this is just PERFECT. The narration is spot on and the video/pictures are powerful. Bravo. Thank you. I hope you don't mind this being broadcast as an educational lesson for 10th Graders...

[Jessrocknroll]

What movie was this from (the videos)

[morningyoga]

Great report Tarrin! I think they were called Freedom Riders. But anyway....I learned some things i didn't know from this. Maybe civil disobedience....as a group on the streets....could make a difference. Not just protesting with signs.

[brownsongs]

They were not called Liberty Riders, it was the Freedom Riders. Just sayin...

[SpookeyR]

...became a Republican as a result of his support for the Barry Goldwater Presidential campaign in 1964.

Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater carried the Deep South in 1964, despite losing in a landslide in the rest of the nation to President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Democrat & Republican politics actually have very little to do with what MLK was demonstrating against.

Learn your American political history, lest you prove to the entire world that you are a fool, FactDenier1!

[SpookeyR]

(Continued) FactDenier1!

Regardless of the power struggle within the Democratic Party concerning segregation policy, the South remained a strongly Democratic voting bloc for local, state, and federal Congressional elections, but not in presidential elections. It was in the 1960s that the vast majority of conservatives moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, including Senator Strom Thurmond, who switched parties and ...

[SpookeyR]

The States' Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a shortlived segregationist, socially conservative political party in the United States. It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the Southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government, and supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states.

[SpookeyR]

(Continued) @FactDenier1!

In the 1930s, the New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a realignment occurred. Much of the Democratic Party shifted towards economic intervention but rejected civil rights for blacks. However, white Southern commitments to Jim Crow grew stronger, and were indirectly challenged as two million blacks served in the military during World War II, receiving equal pay in segregated units, and entitles to equal veterans' benefits.

[WonderBread006]

LMAO! 5:30 and 5:37

[missbham205]

how is that funny. Watch passion of the christ. See how they treated jesus because he was a jew. They treated this man terribly. And still he forgave them. Just like he is forgiving you now.

Have a great day :)

[joanbastek]

AH Tarrin, I do remember living through these times. The big difference is that I was very young and actually cared about what was happening. Much of the craziness that happened back then impacted my decision to move South and learn about the culture.

So I went to Alabama from NH.. culture shock. And then history shock.

Thanks again for a great report!

[FactSeeker1]

At the time that Martin Luther King was marching in the South, the South was totally controlled by Democrat administrations. MLK was demonstrating against Democrat racist policies.

[SpookeyR]

MLK was demonstrating against racist policies and by the 1960s most of those policies were coming from Republicans and virtually ALL OF THEM were coming from conservatives!

Yes, the Democratic Party was the party that supported slavery back before and during the Civil War and they were the party that supported segregation and Jim Crow laws after the war but, this Democratic Party was the 'conservative party' going back to before the American Revolution.

[ne0nsurf]

MLK AND OBAMA = FAIL

mlk was an adulterer and member of the marxo-fascist scum communist party that is now taking over our country. it's the same people that soros funds and kissinger used to fund.

case closed

[NCICOK]

BS!

[shadowcii]

HERO

[Ladyradical]

Another very good vid Tarrin!

[wolfv22]

i would so go march for 5$ and a sandwich ^_^

[DWPerry78]

Tarrin, this is something I learned first-hand from a black man that I went to church with in Birmingham; he told me about the 1963 march that he and others were given $5 and a sandwich to go march downtown.

[pathfinderdaddy]

$5 to risk death,attack dogs,being clubbed,and a sammich?Most did it for free and no food.People wanted to kill MLKjr for having the courage to voice his opinion.

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. "

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering,and struggle;the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

Words even more relevant today.

[myquill23]

From where I come from, we have a term for what the promoters did to those kids.. "hakot"

But then, I guess most people will just shelve this off and say, "Well, those kids should be the examples of society, for they were fighting for something noble.."

Of course..

Feel free to burn me.. :-)

[rabbit2110]

I cant go to LF :( wont have the funds for it!

[RidleyReport]

Nice editing!

[AlexTrebucq]

And Massachusetts thought integrating schools was fine for Mississippi, but not Boston.

[RationalDischarge]

We celebrate the births of TWO civil disobedience heroes this week. MLK today and Lysander Spooner tomorrow! :-)

[MandrikSG]

Tarrin rocks! Another great vid, thanks dude!

[goxethee]

Excellent video Tarrin, as usual. Keep up the good work mate :)

[GrizzlyFist]

gee thanks interesting video

[animaluc]

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30-40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. Over $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since President Lyndon Johnsons War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

[hubbaka]

Democrats have not been running the inner cities, the big corporations that give the jobs and take away the jobs have been running the inner cities.

[shadowcii]

Big corporations do not give the jobs. Small business owners and their workers = 70% of the nation.

Learn to be empowered. Make your own job. Demand the government respect our rights.

[planetspinz]

I grew up watching this on TV & the north was as bad as the south. One part of the story missing is how northerns boycotted the northern stores that discriminated in the south.

[803honda]

I dont know much about Alabama but South Carolina didnt have any jim crow laws till 1866 when the federals took over our government.

[LCLREPORT]

I think south Carlolina gets a unfair bad rap a lot!

[803honda]

Its cause we were first to tell the imperials no and claim independence. They try and make us out to be racist in an attempt to discredit us when we speak of secession. Theyre also trying to distract you from and cover up the fact that they burnt half the state including the church my grandpa built on Edisto River and 3/4 of Columbia.

[lowgens02]

Well done Tarrin! Amazing presentation, those kids are heroes!

[arsxxmoriendi]

Where'd you get the stock footage?

Eventually, all they have is to show themselves for the thugs they are.

Liberty is awakening...

[drumr828]

FANTASTIC VIDEO! Wow!

happy MLK Day