- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Rev. Frank Dukes : Selective Buying Campaign
- Contributor to Resource:
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.)
Dukes, Frank - Date of Original:
- 193-/1962
- Subject:
- African American college students--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham
Boycotts--Alabama--Birmingham
Petitions--Alabama--Birmingham
Mass meetings--Alabama--Birmingham
Discrimination in public accommodations--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
African American soldiers
Equality
Fairfield Industrial High School (Ala.)
11th Commandment (Birmingham, Ala.)
Miles College
Birmingham, Ala. Chamber of Commerce
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
United States. GI Bill - 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
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Fairfield, 33.48594, -86.91194 - Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
interviews
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
video recordings (physical artifacts)
fliers (printed matter) - Type:
- MovingImage
Sound
Text - Format:
- text/html
video/quicktime
application/pdf - Description:
- In 1962, Miles College student Frank Dukes helped organize and participated in a selective buying campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. By boycotting downtown businesses that discriminated against them, African Americans used buying power as political leverage in the struggle for equality. In this interview, Dukes describes his role in the grassroots effort that shook Birmingham's economy.
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.
A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available.
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.dukesbuy/
- Rights Holder:
- 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.
- Extent:
- 9.6 Mb
ca. 6m 51s - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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