In response to a Black-led boycott of downtown Birmingham stores during the civil rights movement, the Birmingham City Commission voted to withhold the city’s $45,000 share of a $100,000 county surplus food aid program. Over 90% of the program’s recipients were Black residents. The move was widely condemned as an act of political retaliation. The NAACP and other civil rights organizations publicly protested the decision, exposing the cruel lengths to which segregationist officials would go to suppress the movement for racial justice.
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