NOTES FOR PAPER

SELMA

MLK GOES TO SELMA

CORETTA HAS A PACKAGE  AT HOME

HAD A WIRE TAPPED OF KING  WITH OTHER WOMEN

WENT 2 SELMA

WHITE MAN ABOUT  2 SHAKE MLK HAND THEN STOPS

SENSES THINGS ARE MO VING TO ANOT HER LEVEL

-          VOTER RIGHT BILL TO PROTECT PEOPLE

-          ORGANIZED 2 SHOW UP ON SUNDAY ( MARCH)

-          POLICE LINED UP WON’T LET THEM MARCH

-          TEAR GAS. BEATING PEOPLE  EVEN THE ELDERLY

Students wanted to march anyway (sncc)

Mlk did not want to offend the federal counts  he wanted support from them

Linda Johnson did not want the m arch to take place

King decided to march anway

“ we have gone too far to turn back we are moving and we cannot afford to stop because alabama and our nation has a date with destiny “king

-          State troopers lined up on the highway

-          They prayed ( the people)

-          Troopers cleared the road

-          They marched (WHITE PPL AND BLK)

-          King started leading the march over the bridge  marching back

-          Back to the chapel all hell broke loose

-          -people were angry they wanted to get beat up wanted to practice nonviolence

King

-          Trying to give black people the right to vote

POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN

-EBENZER BAPTIST CHURCH ATALNE  1968 SNCC MEETING

I WANT THIS MOVMENT TO WORK

CUT DOWN THE POSSIBILITES ABOUT SIDE EDUCATION

OVER BUILDING A WHOLE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR  OR DO THE POOR PEOPLES CA MPAGIN

“ I KNOW NONVIOLENCE WILL WORK  IT WORKS IN MARRIAGE  WITH CHILDREN  WORKS WITH BILL COHONERS, WORKS IN TRESALENT RELATIONSHIPS” KING

King-“ we have to do it for our own self diginity and determination” –king

-          Celebrated king bday says  happy bday to him  ( king will die in a few months)

-           Missippi  march   ( hearings)

-          Rest of the world needs to hear testimonies of the people ( started the poor peoples c ampagin0

-           “ I have listened to your problems and it has touched me we will work with you”  -king

“ it didn’t cost the nation one penny to gurantee the rights to vote  now we are dealing with issues that cannot be solved without the nation spending billions of dollars” - KING   <<< occupy wall street?

PHILLY  CHICAGO   THEY MARCHED AND THEY WERE THROWING SO MANY ROCKS AND EVEN POLICE  DUCKED  “ I WAS SO AFRAID  THAT I HAD YIELEDED TO THE POSSIBLITY OF DEATH” –king

He did not get much sleep because of his mistakes  (stress)

-          Memphis

-           garbage workers go on strike

-          Started with 2 garbage men crushed in the back of the garbage truck because they were not allowed to seek garbage in certain neighborhoods in Memphis

-          King speaks “ it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation ways”  (>>economic justice <<<