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A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations taking place in the area at the time. In the letter, they took issue with events "directed and led in part by outsiders," and they urged activists to engage in local ...
On April 10, 1963, Bull Connor obtained an injunction barring the protests and subsequently raised bail bond for those arrested from $200 to $1,500 ($2,000 to $15,000 in 2025). Fred Shuttlesworth called the injunction a "flagrant denial of our constitutional rights" and organizers prepared to defy the order.
Trump says ‘everything will be revealed’ about the 1963 killing of the 35th president, the murder of Kennedy’s brother five years later and the sniper shooting of the Rev Dr Martin Luther ...
On April 12, 1963, Grafman joined seven of the signatories to the previous Appeal in issuing a second statement, known as "A Call for Unity". This statement was a response to the preparations for the Birmingham campaign , a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by King to bring attention to the ...
President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he would release classified documents in the coming days related to the assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and ...
Trump was president when the 2017 deadline arrived. He ordered the release of nearly 2,900 records, but kept others secret because of concerns by the CIA and FBI that their release could hurt ...
Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others were arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama, protest for "parading without a permit". Died: Herbie Nichols, 44, American jazz pianist and composer; of leukemia; Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, 72, Polish philosopher and logician
The date was Aug. 28, 1963. An estimated quarter of a million people came to Washington D.C. on a sun-filled day to march for jobs and civil rights. The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev ...