Birmingham campaign
- Created by: Emily
- Created on: 14-01-13 14:10
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- Birmingham Campaign
- Why?
- Large black community
- Followed of from the failure of albany campaign
- King knew bull connors tactics and he had a short fuse.
- King learnt his lesson from albany
- Under estimated support
- Had to campaign in black areas to make it look like there was more people
- local leader of sclc was unpopular
- Events
- King took school children out of school as not enough attention was being gained
- Bull connor had a short fuse and attacked the protesters with dogs and water cannons
- Church with four girls attending sunday school was bombed by kkk
- Mass media attention
- bull connor filled the jails up
- Result
- it was embarrassing to america and the presidents image
- a deal was made that stores were to desegregate and equal employment however this was not immediate
- Why?
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