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Birmingham News Political Comic Depicting MLK as the Cause of Racial Violence -by Charles Brooks 1967
Comic Title: 'I Plan To Lead Another Non-Violent March Tomorrow.'
Comment in ball-point ink: "How can you, a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, be such a deceitful hypocrite? You’re not fooling anyone but yourself in your nauseating talk about non-violence. You demand a program to overcome poverty and “flow in” untold amounts in your high living and running all over the globe to feed your own egotism."
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The drawing is a commentary on the white violence that followed King around
DidItForScience
Which is why it shows MLK standing among the rubble speaking with a white guy on the ground and a stunned reporter looking warily at MLK?
TheQuoll
https://www.cbr.com/martin-luther-king-jr-cartoons-depictions-1960s-media/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign – http://www.pbs.org">aign">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign – http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement-birmingham-campaign
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Black churches & businesses were bombed, children had fire hoses & police dogs turned on them, John Lewis was beat nearly to death by police
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https://theconversation.com/how-the-images-of-john-lewis-being-beaten-during-bloody-sunday-went-viral-143080
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Black children were jailed by the hundreds, And lest we forget, shooting MLK was pretty violent white action