https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz en-us 2018-04-09 13:00:29 UTC 2025-11-12 18:22:05 UTC hello@padlet.com qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250240718 1.  Southern Christian Leadership Conference  (SCLC)- the main aim was to advance the cause of the civil rights in america but non-violent manner.
2. Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)- mission was to fight for freedom, democracy and first class citizenship for Birmingham blacks. ]]> 2018-04-10 13:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250240718 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250245047 2018-04-10 13:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250245047 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250246340 The Campaign used a variety of non-violent methods of confrontation, including sit-ins at libraries and lunch counters, kneel ins by black visitors, etc.]]> 2018-04-10 13:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250246340 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250248687 The Birmingham Campaign also known as Project C: it was the beginning of the series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on city hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in city.]]> 2018-04-10 13:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250248687 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250255282 The Alabama court cases appeals broad holding that Fred shuttles- worth's constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested for parading without a perm it on Good Friday was a likely welcome surprise for the leaders of the Birmingham Campaign. 
The First Amendment (primarily speech, assembly and petition — to protest racial injustice and promote racial equality) was in use]]> 2018-04-10 13:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250255282 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250432892 In the Spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the civil rights movement: project C better known as the Birmingham campaign. It would be the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on city hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city.  The goal of the local campaign was to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season, the second biggest shopping season of the year.]]> 2018-04-10 18:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250432892 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250436018 Fred Shuttlesworth was a Baptist Minister who was one of the top leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, working with Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC. Birmingham’s local campaign organized by Rev. Shuttlesworth and his group, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR). 

]]> 2018-04-10 18:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250436018 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250679031 He became a civil rights activist, and helped set up 1963's "children's crusade" in Birmingham, Alabama—a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. He left the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Bevel was convicted of incest in 2008. He died in Springfield, Virginia, later that same year.]]> 2018-04-11 12:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250679031 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250683764 Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.]]> 2018-04-11 13:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250683764 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688096 Contracts signed to begin construction of the multimillion-dollar Red Mountain Expressway; the first phase of the project will take fifteen to eighteen months to complete.]]> 2018-04-11 13:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688096 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688858 An injunction petition is filed against the Birmingham Election Commission in Circuit Court to halt the upcoming March 5 Birmingham election.


]]> 2018-04-11 13:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688858 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688915 George C. Wallace takes over as Alabama governor. During his inaugural he calls for "segregation now ... segregation tomorrow ... segregation forever!"]]> 2018-04-11 13:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250688915 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250689165 Birmingham Mayor Arthur J. Hanes loses his bid to stop the March 5 mayor-council city election.]]> 2018-04-11 13:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250689165 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250689412 In the mayoral election, former Alabama Lt. Gov. Albert Boutwell receives 39 percent of the vote and Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor receives 31 percent, setting up an April 2 runoff.]]> 2018-04-11 13:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250689412 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250690681 This political cartoon shows the segregation and social Inequality Between blacks and whites. This cartoon shows a white soldier "protecting" the African America boy but he isn't doing anything about the white racist man in his face threatening to kill him.]]> 2018-04-11 13:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250690681 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250692960 Bowron rules in favor of Boutwell, saying the newly elected mayor and the nine recently elected council members are the legal city government.]]> 2018-04-11 13:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250692960 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250693237 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy sends U.S. troops trained in riot control to military  bases near Birmingham and pledges that the federal government will "do whatever must be done" to preserve order in the strife-torn city.]]> 2018-04-11 13:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250693237 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250693741 Birmingham Police Chief Jamie Moore asks for a $540,000 increase in the police budget for the 1963-1964 fiscal year, emphasizing the heavy load placed on policemen during race-related demonstrations.]]> 2018-04-11 13:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250693741 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694187 The U.S. Justice Department files suit against the Jefferson County Board of Registrars requiring the board to instate more than two thousand black voter applicants who were rejected because they failed county qualification tests.]]> 2018-04-11 13:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694187 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694627 A bomb explodes and damages home of attorney Arthur D. Shores; there are no injuries.]]> 2018-04-11 13:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694627 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694824 On April 10, 1963, the city government obtained a state court injunction against the protests. After debate, campaign leaders decided to disobey the court order. ]]> 2018-04-11 13:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694824 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694952 The Birmingham Board of Education formally closes three public schools.]]> 2018-04-11 13:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250694952 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250695455 One-hundred-sixteen black residents publish a full-page ad in The Birmingham News, titled "Birmingham's Moment of Crisis: A Statement of Concern and Conviction," asking for the city to take action in several areas to address the tense racial climate.


]]> 2018-04-11 13:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250695455 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250695952 On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand African American students attempted to march into downtown Birmingham where hundreds were arrested. The following day, Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor directed local police and fire departments to use force to halt the demonstrations. The next few days’ images of children being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses, clubbed by police officers, and attacked by dogs appeared on television and in newspapers, sparking international outrage.]]> 2018-04-11 13:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250695952 eleyva2128 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250698550 Four months later on September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members bombed Birmingham’s Sixteen Street Baptist Church which had been the staging center for many of the spring demonstrations.  Four young black girls—Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair—were killed. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the eulogy at their funeral on September 18, 1963.  Nonetheless, Birmingham was considered one of the most successful campaigns of the civil rights era.  ]]> 2018-04-11 13:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250698550 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250699751 2018-04-11 13:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/250699751 qwilli6800 https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/251139431 an agreement with the city of Birmingham to desegregate lunch counters, restrooms, drinking fountains, and department store fitting rooms within ninety days, to hire blacks in stores as salesmen and clerks, and to release of hundreds of jail protestors on bond.]]> 2018-04-12 13:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/qwilli6800/2lv6zlxg6gqz/wish/251139431