- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Eleventh Commandment flyer
- Creator:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1962
- Subject:
- African American college students--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
Boycotts--Alabama--Birmingham
Petitions--Alabama--Birmingham
Discrimination in public accommodations--Alabama--Birmingham
African American women--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Segregation--Alabama--Birmingham
Students--Alabama--Birmingham
Minorities--Education
Social justice--Alabama--Birmingham
Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations
Direct action--Alabama--Birmingham
11th Commandment (Birmingham, Ala.)
Miles College--Students
Daniel Payne College--Students
Booker T. Washington Business College--Students
Birmingham, Ala. Chamber of Commerce
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - People:
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Connor, Eugene, 1897-1973
Dukes, Frank
Pitts, Lucius Hosley, 1922-1991
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
fliers (printed matter) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Organizers of a 1962 selective buying campaign created and posted flyers with the slogan "The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Stay Out of Downtown Birmingham." This flyer represents collaboration among students at Miles College, Daniel Payne College, and the Booker T. Washington Business College. The student-led campaign encouraged African Americans to boycott stores and restaurants that discriminated against them.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
Lesson plans using this resource: Campaigns for Economic Freedom.
The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.11thcom/
- Extent:
- text/pdf
89.4 Kb - Contributing Institution:
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Rights:
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