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  1. Dec 2024
    1. died on Friday in Dayton, Ohio

      This is incorrect. She died in a car crash on SR-3 in Genoa Township, OH (north east of Columbus) on 2024-11-22. According to the accident report, the Delaware County Coroner transported her body to the Montgomery County Coroner's office at that time.

  2. Feb 2024
  3. Feb 2021
    1. In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs

      Historical background on Birmingham

  4. Sep 2018
  5. Jul 2015
    1. he launches into an extended claim that “privileged groups” will always oppose action that threatens the status quo. They will always consider attacks on their privilege as “untimely,” especially because groups have a tendency towards allowing immorality that individuals might oppose (173).
    2. but he insists that negotiations cannot happen without protest, which creates a “crisis” and “tension” that forces unwilling parties (in this case, the white business owners) to negotiate in good faith. He admits that words like “tension” frighten white moderates, but embraces the concepts as “constructive and nonviolent.”
    3. attempted to negotiate with white business leaders there. When those negotiations broke down because of promises the white men broke, the SCLC planned to protest through “direct action.” Before beginning protests, however, they underwent a period of “self-purification,” to determine whether they were ready to work nonviolently,