Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign
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Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign
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.