Talk:Integration of Birmingham Terminal Station

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Date of original arrest

I found sources (via Google News Archive) that give conflicting dates for the Baldwins' arrest. One says December 22, which from other articles I assume agrees with what it says in Marjorie White's A Walk to Freedom. Two others, however, says December 16. And, just to be confusing, yet three more say December 17. (Interestingly, one of these is the same paper that said December 16 in an earlier article.) I'm sticking with December 22 for the moment, but would love to have more sources for this. --Lkseitz 15:58, 23 February 2010 (PST)

  • I just found in the Fifth Circuit of Appeals first ruling that the date of arrest is listed (twice) as December 17, so I'll be going with that. --Lkseitz 10:48, 24 February 2010 (PST)
    • ARGH! But in their second ruling, the date of arrest is given as December 22. No wonder this is so confusing! Now I don't know what to do. I've already changed it to the December 17 on other pages. --Lkseitz 10:56, 24 February 2010 (PST)
      • Finally, I might have found an explanation. This Birmingham Library Scrapbook has an article (bottom right of page) saying they bought the tickets on December 17, but had a departure (and arrest) date of December 22. (Please note that this scrapbook has just been put online, so it wasn't available during my earlier searches.) --Lkseitz 10:13, 24 May 2010 (PDT)

Baldwins' entry

In researching this article, I found very little was revealed about the Baldwins themselves beyond the events mentioned here. I don't even know their ages. I'm thinking they either need a combined entry for the couple or maybe even just redirects on their names to this article. If we went with redirects and found more information later, we could always expand the redirects to full articles. --Lkseitz 15:58, 23 February 2010 (PST)

  • No objection. --Dystopos 12:21, 24 May 2010 (PDT)