Children's Crusade (Birmingham, 1963)
GPTKB entity
Statements (23)
Predicate | Object |
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
protest
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
Children's March
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gptkbp:arrested |
over 600 children arrested on first day
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gptkbp:date |
May 2–5, 1963
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Children's Crusade (Birmingham, 1963)
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gptkbp:influencedBy |
nonviolent protest philosophy
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gptkbp:location |
gptkb:Birmingham,_Alabama
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gptkbp:mediaCoverage |
gptkb:Life_magazine
national television |
gptkbp:notableFor |
police use of fire hoses and dogs
mass arrests of children |
gptkbp:opposedBy |
gptkb:Bull_Connor
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gptkbp:organizedBy |
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference gptkb:Rev._James_Bevel |
gptkbp:participants |
over 1,000 children
African American schoolchildren |
gptkbp:partOf |
gptkb:Birmingham_campaign
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gptkbp:purpose |
protest segregation
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gptkbp:resultedIn |
increased support for Civil Rights Act of 1964
national attention to civil rights movement |
gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Freeman_A._Hrabowski_III
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gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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