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Wednesday Open Thread: Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins

February 10, 2016 by pragobots 339 Comments

On Aug. 19,1958 Clara Luper and thirteen members of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council stage sit-in at whites-only lunch counter at the Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City (Photo: OU.edu/ The Oklahoma Publishing Company, copyright 1958)

HAPPY HUMP DAY P.O.U.!

We continue our look at the Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins discussion featuring Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Leverne McCummins.

In this segment, Malcolm X mentions “the stoning of Rockwell” in Boston. He’s referring to an incident where George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, was stoned by survivors of German Nazi concentration camps as he tried to picket a movie theater showing the movie “Exodus”. You can read more about that incident here.

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Filed Under: African Americans, Civil Rights, History, Open Thread, Politics Tagged With: Black History, Black Muslims, civil disobedience, Civil Rights Movement, James Baldwin, Leverne McCummins, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, nonviolent movement, Pacifica Radio, racism, Sit-Ins, WBAI

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