【美国历史上的今天】12/12 美国黑人民权运动 Albany Movement

历史上的今天

记得学姐之前说过，在AP历史拿高分有2个必不可少的要素：

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那如果说论文写作能力是烹饪技巧，那史实就像做菜的原材料。巧妇难为无米之炊。历史论文的论据都来自史实，所以论证力度取决于能否引用足够的史实来支撑你的论点。历史论文缺乏史实的话，写作技巧再高超也不能写出令人信服的历史论文。相反，即便你能记住大量史实，如果不会合理地组织运用，也写不出好论文。所以要写出高分的AP历史论文，既需要能对史实信手拈来，也需要有把这些史实有效组织起来去支撑你观点的写作能力。两者相辅相成，缺一不可。

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When: December 12, 1961

What: Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstraters were arrested in Albany, Georgia

Why significant: Albany came to the forefront of the civil rights movement in 1961. Someone in the Albany civil rights movement invited Martin Luther King to join the protest. This angered SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) who wanted the protest to stay led by locals.
King led one protest march and got arrested. The city authorities decided no-one would be arrested and jailed; students were arrested and released. In this way there were no 'martyrs’ to the cause and the nation’s media were less likely to be attracted to what was going on – the opposite of what happened in Birmingham.

The Albany Movement was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans. It mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention, but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. However, it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the Civil Rights Movement. The lessons that Martn Luther King Jr. learned would soon be applied in Birmingham, Alabama. Out of Albany's failure, came Birmingham's success.

Tags: civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Albany Movement, Birmingham campaign, racial equality