Heading: (African American, 1963)
Author:
Title: March Up Market Street for FREEDOM IN BIRMINGHAM
Place Published: [San Francisco?]
Publisher:
Date Published: 23157
Description:

5½x8", single sheet printed on one side.

A rare leaflet distributed to students at UC Berkeley to support Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.

The organizers, from local church and labor union groups, were, according to press reports, "moved to tears" when an estimated 12,000 people turned out to join in the parade up Market Street, a "peaceful and orderly" demonstration, "under the watchful eye" of 100 policemen, "marked now and then by the spontaneous singing of the participants". Keynote speaker Rev. Lee declared, "Today's demonstration will go down in history as one of the significant events to have taken place in this area of the country since the Westward Movement."

The huge crowd had come to show sympathy for the Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where daily sit-ins led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., met with police tear gas, attack dogs, fire hoses, and the arrest of more than 3,000, mostly teenaged, demonstrators. A subdued purpose of this "Human Rights Day" was to call for an end to racial prejudice in San Francisco, where there had been allegations of de facto segregation in the public schools.

Very good.