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The goal of the local campaign was to attack the city´s segregation system. The campaign was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reverend James Bevel, and Fred Shuttlesworth. They had the hope to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Rev. Shuttlesworth
was a membership Chairman of the Alabama state chapter of the NAACP. Established the Alabama Christian movement for Human RIghts to take up the work formerly done by the NAACP>

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
launched mass meetings, lunch counter sit-ins, a march on city hall, and a boycott of downtown merchants. Was arrested on good Friday in Birmingham after violating the anti-protest injunction and was placed in solitary confinement.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC):
The organization aimed to advance the cause of civil rights in America in a non-violent manner. They claimed their first victory in the Birmingham Campaign. In 1963 they joined to help the ACMHR.

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR):
They created ¨Project C,¨ a month long campaign involving protest and mass marches led by Shuttlesworth and King Jr.

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April 3, 1963- ACMGR and SCLC lead sit in demonstrations in downtown Birmingham.
April 5, 1963- Ten sit-in demonstrators are arrested
April 6, 1963-The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth leads a march toward City Hall, police halt the march, and arrest 31 participants.
May 3 and 4 1963- Police use water hoses and police dogs
july 23 1963- The Birmingham City Council unanimously repeals all segregation ordinances as provided in the city's General Code.

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The amendment that were violated were the First Amendment because of the violation to peacefully assemble.

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Editorial panel first appearing in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on December 16th, based on photographer Bill Hudson's iconic 1963 image from the Birmingham Campaign, where hoses and dogs were deployed against civil right protesters.

Fresh from wallowing in the results of their gerrymandering the last election, and having solved all the other problems facing Alaska, the new Republican majority is addressing a Very Serious Issue. Okay, no not really, they're simply making shit up.

Not just pole-vaulting over a moose nugget: this is bald-faced lying, right out in the open, in plain sight. Assuming that a populace that was ignorant enough to elect them in the first place is also stupid enough to not know or really care what they do, the first important legislation they will champion this legislative session will apparently be to fix the problem of completely non-existent voter fraud.

As evidenced by several prominent confessions from Republican operatives, their ulterior motives are plainly obvious (see here, here and here for the more recent, brazen examples), it's just that Alaska is a little behind on doing everything it can to keep those irksome brown people from doing basic things like exercising their right to vote. One might suppose a legislator's fundamental job is to make things easier for folks, but evidently the concept of "citizenry" plainly just doesn't extend to, say, non-whites. Not surprisingly, some folks will have a problem about that.

Why is this racist? Because, lie as hard as they try, there just isn't any other rational reason for advancing or supporting such legislation (and this will be the first of many, many other such initiatives to issue forth from Juneau). In all honesty we should be grateful for politicians such as Rep. Bob Lynn (R-Anchorage) who allow us to see the raw, unfiltered motivation behind the party of Angry White Guys. The demographics of deliberate and strategic voter suppression tactics and the erosion of civil liberties is a hallmark of Outside moneyed interests such as ALEC, whose agenda is being furthered by the GOP members in the Alaskan Legislature carrying their water snow.

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"Birmingham, Alaska" (Voter ID Migrates North)

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Editorial panel first appearing in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on December 16th, based on photographer Bill Hudson's iconic 1963 image from the Birmingham Campaign, where hoses and dogs were deployed against civil right protesters. Fresh from wallowing in the results of their gerrymandering the last election, and having solved all the other problems facing Alaska, the new Republican majority is addressing a Very Serious Issue.

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The Birmingham campaign influenced other groups because it demonstrated that they are willing to do whatever it takes to gain their rights. They are willing to do everything and anything to gain equality and they spread the wave.

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Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
Shuttlesworth was arrested and convicted for violating 1159 of the city's general code, an ordinance which proscribes participating in any parade or procession of city streets or public ways without first obtaining a permit from the city commission. he was represented by the prominent civil rights attorney James Nabrit III

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1. The campaign started as a non-violent protest. It began with a series of sit-ins and boycotts on downtown merchants. Over the next several months it was followed by violent attacks using high-pressure fire houses and police dogs on men, women, and children.

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The first minute:

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Birmingham, Montgomery and Jackson offer Civil Rights History to Group Travel