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Another historic Civil Rights handbill / broadside I felt compelled to preserve in my collection. Dating from March 1961, this original CORE Handbill calling for a Protest meeting and march in Los Angeles against the "Unjust Jailing Freedom Riders". Hear the stories of the Freedom Rides as told by young people just released from Mississippi Prisons. Featuring Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
From Wikipedia:
"Frederick Lee "Fred" Shuttlesworth (born Fred Lee Robinson, March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011), was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961. He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007.
He helped Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport was named in his honor in 2008.
103rd & Central - the heart of Watts.
Will Rogers Park is now known as Ted Watkins Park, named after long-time LA civil rights and anti-poverty activist.
From the park to the Federal Bldg. - about 7.5 miles.
Interesting when you remember that California had the most racist laws in the U.S..
My uncle - who was in a Jesuit Seminary at the time, was one of the jailed Freedom Riders. My grandfather [Pepere] was down there supporting him.
Keramikos, there have been documentaries citing California as having the most Jim Crow laws in the U.S. back then. Forgetting Watts, Rodney King and others ? Actually, maybe the South flogging was being used as a smoke-screen to draw attention away from attrocities being done in places, like California, Detroit, Chicago,Cleveland, NY and a whole lot of other places that can be drawn into that net. "People who live in glass houses, shouldn't cast stones". Ho2, did your uncle leave CA to go cast stones at people less guilty than his own neighbours ? "Beating a dead horse"! At 72 yrs., one thing I have found to be a constant: People believe what they want to believe. That never varies! A bientot
ho2cultcha you should be very proud of your uncle and grandfather. It took courage.
Just to speak up for Californians - things are better now. If we are going to feel guilty, we should feel guilty for the present, not the past. The last time slavery was legal in California the place was being run by the Catholic Church.