Civil Rights

A look back and forward at our country’s complicated relationship with Civil Rights.

When King Was Dangerous

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When King Was Dangerous

Martin Luther King Jr was not a popular man. In 1963, just 41 percent of Americans expressed a positive view of him. Only Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was more unpopular. It went downhill from there. By 1966, two-thirds of Americans held a negative view of King. In his remaining years, King polled worse than nearly all other well-known Americans. Worse than Ted Kennedy would after Chappaquiddick. Worse than Haldeman and Ehrlichman would during Watergate. Even French president Charles de Gaulle failed to provoke the same hostility as King.

Leon Van Dyke takes about the Civil Unrest in Albany & across the country

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Leon Van Dyke takes about the Civil Unrest in Albany & across the country

5/31/2020 by The Focus on Albany Show

Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=106961413
Episode: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/cynpooler/2020/05/31/leon-van-dyke-takes-about-the-civil-unrest-in-albany-across-the-country.mp3

Leon Van Dyke takes about the Civil Unrest in Albany & across the country

This is a very important interview to listen to during this time of unrest.

While the days of the Brothers, the Civil Rights Movement and Erastus Corning are long ago history, Brother Leon Van Dyke has some very insightful on the Civil Unrest in Albany. Don’t believe the politicians, it’s not outsiders and its not just blacks who protesting the chronic injustice in the city.

The Albany Movement (1961–1962) •

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The Albany Movement (1961–1962) •

The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia. Local activists from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Ministerial Alliance, the Federation of Woman’s Clubs, and the Negro Voters League joined together to create the movement. The Albany Movement challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the movement in December 1961.