“How Could There Be a God and Allow This to Happen?”: Testing the Civil Rights Act (2024)

Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

John M. Giggie

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2024

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9780197766699

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Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

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Giggie, John M., '“How Could There Be a God and Allow This to Happen?”: Testing the Civil Rights Act', Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197766668.003.0009, accessed 26 May 2024.

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Chapter Seven studies the growing radicalization of Black protest, and the concomitant stiffening of white resistance, in the wake of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act empowered Black activists to broaden their campaign of sit-ins and boycotts around the city, in the hopes of ending segregation practices rendered illegal by the Act. These renewed protests, however, in turn sparked violent efforts by the Ku Klux Klan and white citizens to maintain segregation, regardless of federal legislation. This chapter also illuminates Black efforts to engage the Klan in a gun battle, the ongoing legal efforts intended to force local eateries to serve Black customers, and the eventual intervention of US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Keywords: James Bevel, Harold Middlebrook, Richard Boone, Tuscaloosa, First African Baptist, Bailey Tabernacle, resistance, guns, Ku Klux Klan

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History of the Americas

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