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This is a New York Times article about Rev. William Augustus Jones Jr. The preacher mentioned in our original article. He put hours of work and sermons preaching civil rights. He discussed that if the religious community went out and pushed for people to vote, there would be a massive change in politics and prejudice.

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In 1979, he helped found the National Black Pastors Conference, a group of 3,000 Protestant and Roman Catholic black priests and ministers, and later led the organization. He said he believed that black churches, banded together, could be a strong political force, one not as dependent on white benefactors as many civil rights organizations were.

"We have our finger on all the black churches in this country," Dr. Jones said in an interview with The Times in 1980. "Just imagine 12,000 black churches saying, 'Go out and vote.' We could change the nation and change the world."

After serving as the New York chairman of Operation Breadbasket, the economic development arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he succeeded the Rev. Jesse Jackson as the national chairman.

Dr. Jones did not play things safe. When Rudolph W. Giuliani was running for mayor in 1993, he said, "Elements that can best be described as fascist seem to have grown up and flowered around Mr. Giuliani."

Mayor David N. Dinkins, who was standing by Dr. Jones's side at a rally at Bethany when he made the remark, quickly disavowed it.

In 1988, when a black girl, Tawana Brawley, contended that she had been beaten and raped by white racists, Dr. Jones came to her aid. He housed her mother, Glenda, in his church for 40 days so she could avoid testifying under oath. (A state grand jury later ruled that Tawana's accusations were lies.)

Dr. Jones provided platforms for controversial black speakers like Leonard Jeffries, a professor at the City College of New York who has been widely criticized for anti-Semitic statements. When Alton H. Maddox Jr., one of Tawana Brawley's lawyers, was ordered to appear before a grievance committee questioning his conduct, he took Dr. Jones with him.

Mr. Maddox said in a speech reprinted in The Amsterdam News in 1993 that he had chosen Dr. Jones because he was "big enough and bad enough."

Dr. Jones said the Rev. Al Sharpton's mother asked him to look after her son when he was a boy; he later recruited Mr. Sharpton as a youth leader in Operation Breadbasket. In 1994, Mr. Sharpton, a Pentecostal minister from the age of 10, went to Dr. Jones's church to be baptized as a Baptist.

"Reverend Jones has always been an anchor to my family," Mr. Sharpton told The Times.

William Augustus Jones Jr. was born on Feb. 24, 1934, in Louisville, Ky. He graduated with honors in sociology from the University of Kentucky, where he regretted that he could not play basketball because blacks were then barred from the team.

He graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary, near Chester, Pa., the same seminary attended by King. He later earned a doctorate from the school, now part of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

He enlisted in the Army in 1954 as a private and was discharged in 1956 as a first lieutenant. He was called to the ministry of the First Baptist Church of Paschal in Philadelphia.

He joined Bethany in September 1962 and within 10 months was leading 75 ministers in a protest at the State University of New York's Health Science Center at Brooklyn, charging discriminatory hiring practices by unions. More than 700 people were arrested, including Dr. Jones's own children; in the aftermath, blacks increased their participation in the building trades.

The A.&P. protest, which involved raucous demonstrations at the company's headquarters in Manhattan, also resulted in changing some hiring and buying practices.

In 1969, Dr. Jones became the first African-American to run for Brooklyn borough president, finishing third in a field of four.

Dr. Jones is survived by his wife, the former Natalie Barkley Brown; a son, William Augustus III of Lexington, Ky.; three daughters, Elsa Elisabeth Jones of Rocky Hill, Conn., and Lesley-Diann Jones and Jennifer Jones Austin, both of Brooklyn; three brothers, the Rev. Lamont Jones Sr. of Lexington, the Rev. Henry Wise Jones of Atlanta and Byron Timothy Jones of Frankfort, Ky.; two sisters, Phyllis Jones Meade and Sylvia Jones Harris, both of Atlanta; and eight grandchildren.

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The Rev. William A. Jones, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 71

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In 1979, he helped found the National Black Pastors Conference, a group of 3,000 Protestant and Roman Catholic black priests and ministers, and later led the organization. He said he believed that black churches, banded together, could be a strong political force, one not as dependent on white benefactors as many civil rights organizations were.

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Negro Woman Being Carried to Police Truck During Demonstration in Brooklyn, New York

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Negro Woman Being Carried to Police Truck During Demonstration in Brooklyn, New York

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This picture shows how cruel the police  treated blacks. They would literally drag them, carry them, etc., and throw them in the police car.
The picture shown below is one of the most important pictures taken within this protest. She shows no sign of violence or resistance towards the police. This picture proves to any one who sees it that African Americans were PEACEFULLY asking for their rights, and were only arrested in return.
The article talks about how early in the morning the protesters had stood in front of the medical center with pickets. It said that people were picked up and carried one-by-one, like this woman, into police trucks. This picture also shows no violence which the article seems to argue very passionately about.

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This picture is important because it show's how blacks would be outside for hours protesting to get the equal rights that they deserve.
These men, women, and children are shown standing outside of the medical center in Brooklyn, New York. They are protesting for their rights to have jobs within the city construction companies. In the far left hand corner you can see a construction truck trying to break through the peaceful protest.
The article talks about this moment, but explains that there was violence on the protesters part. But when looking at this picture it is almost impossible to see any violence occurring. In fact, there doesn't seem to be any sort of police depicted inside of this image.

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On August 1, 1963, in Brooklyn, a riot had almost surfaced. African Americans and Puerto Ricans were pressing for more available jobs in the construction industry. A big portion of the rioting took place outside of the construction site of the Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. The protesters strategically positioned themselves in the middle of the road leading to the Medical Center so that all trucks would be blocked. However as soon as the protesters began this process, policemen came to the scene and started to carry away the picketers one-by-one. In reaction to this, the protesters began showing violence by kicking and hitting the policemen of the city. However, the police were not being peaceful either towards the protesters. They were using their batons and their horses to push the protesters to the sides of the streets. This, in turn, left two African American women severely injured. The article does not go into sufficient detail here about how the police were specifically brutal. However, it does go into detail, a few times, about how brutal the protesters were. That day twenty-two people were arrested during the protest. There were many times throughout this day where the civil rights activists tried to promote peace onto the demonstrators. Trying to keep the violence to almost nothing. But not all speeches worked.
It all seemed to escalate at around 8AM when 12 people sat in the center of the road leading to the medical center. The point of this, was to block all trucks from coming into the site, as well as out of it. These men were later carried to a patrol wagon when they refused to move. Then a group of youthful teenagers got the idea to form a line and hold hands across the street. When the first line had been removed a second line would then reform. While the trucks were being blocked with somewhat of a peaceful protest, some protesters were taunting the police. The taunting turned into violence when the police had formed their own line of protest to allow the trucks to pass through the line of protesters forming. The man and women reacted with hitting and kicking, sending a few policemen to the hospital for urgent care. There were also many African American protesters that were sent to the hospitals as well. A large number including young children. This says a lot about how strong police brutality in the city was at this time.
The civil rights activists involved in this protest had seemed to lose control over the demonstrators. A statement was issued announcing that all protesters should go home for the night. However, as soon as the demonstrators left, a new group of protesters decided to take their place. These protestors seemed to approach things differently by raising more awareness through peaceful chants and prayers. There was no violence to be heard of during the night rally, but protesters were still being arrested. The article itself seems to be written for a white audience. Mostly because when it talks about the violence, it only describes the protestors violence. There are obvious signs that the police were violent as well, but it is not put into words that make it quite obvious.