The “Statement by Alabama Clergymen” was an important article published in 1963, the year of dramatic events of Civil Right Movements. It called upon Alabama residents, especially the Black, to stop their sit-ins, marches, and other kinds of resisting the segregation at that time. Furthermore, the eight clergymen encouraged the work of regional policemen, using ‘brutal punishment’ to those who did not obey the segregation. According to the Blessed Are The Peacemakers, eight Alabama clergymen who established the “Statement by Alabama Clergymen” were “Nolan Harmon, Paul Hardin, Charles Carpenter, George Murray, Joseph Durick, Joe Allen, Ed Ramage, Earl Stallings, and Milton Grafman” (Bass 9). They were white church leaders in Alabama, who were respected by …show more content…
They “put aside religious and personal differences and provided a public display of tempered, Judeo-Christian unity” (Bass 10). No matter what the religion or gospel they wanted their residents to follow, but what they targeted to was a community of unity; that proved these eight clergymen aimed to a better society of Alabama, and from my observation, the “Statement by Alabama Clergymen” was not an exception.
In 1958, J. Hanes. Connor, known as Bull Connor, came back to Alabama and became the Mayor Arthur (Osborne 399) of this place. Bull proclaimed that he would buy one hundred police dogs in case the black citizens in Birmingham still put up resistance. Even though the declaration had been spoken out, the African Americans still fought until they could attain their freedom. The more the Black fought for the