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demonstrations in
Birmingham, Ala.,
where local white pohce
officials were known
from their anti-black
attitudes. Clashes
between black demon
strators and police
using police dogs and
fire hoses generated
newspaper headlines
through the world. In
June, President
Kennedy reacted to the
Birmingham protests
and the obstinacy of seg
regationist Alabama
Governor George
Wallace by agreed to
submit broad civil rights
legislation to Congress
(which eventually
passed the Civil Rights
Act of 1964).
Subsequent mass
demonstrations in
many communities cul
minated in a march on
August 28, 1963, that
attracted more than
250,000 protesters to
Washington, D. C.
Addressing the
marchers from the steps
of the Lincoln
Memorial, King deliv
ered his famous “I Have
a Dream” oration.
During the year fol
lowing the March,
King’s renown grew as
he became Time maga
zine’s Man of the Year
and, in December 1964,
the recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite fame and acco
lades, however, King
faced many challenges
to his leadership.
Malcolm X’s (1927-
1965) message of self-
defense and black
nationalism expressed
the discontent and
anger of northern,
urban blacks more effec
tively than did King’s
moderation. During the
1965 Selma to
Montgomery march.
King and his lieu
tenants were able to
keep intra-movement
conflicts sufficiently
under control to bring
about passage of the
1965 Voting Rights Act,
but while participating
in a 1966 march
through Mississippi,
King encountered
strong criticism from
“Black Power” propo
nent Stokely
Carmichael. Shortly
afterward white
counter-protesters in
the Chicago area physi
cally assaulted King in
the Chicago area during
an imsuccessful effort to
transfer non-violent
protest techniques to
the urban North.
Despite these leader
ship conflicts. King
remained committed to
the use of non-violent
techniques. Early in
1968, he initiated a Poor
Peoples campaign
designed to confront
economic problems that
had not been addressed
by early civil rights
reforms.
FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover’s already exten
sive efforts to under
mine King’s leadership
were intensified during
1967 as urban racial
violence escalated. Ring
, had lost the support of
many white liberals,
and his relations with
the L3mdon Johnson
administration were at
a low point when he was
eissassinated on April 4,
1968, while seeking to
assist a garbage work
ers’ strike in Memphis.
After his death. King
remaines a controver
sial symbol of the
African-American civil
rights struggle.
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