The Birmingham Campaign (1st period) by Ashlyn Blakely https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn Ashlyn & Destiny en-us 2017-03-14 13:06:49 UTC 2025-09-24 11:31:33 UTC hello@padlet.com INTRO PARAGRAPH ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159965285 The Birmingham Campaign was led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1963 to bring attention to integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, AL. Some major leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth led nonviolent boycotts, sit-ins, and walks to fight against segregation in "the most segregated city in America."]]> 2017-03-14 13:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159965285 Martin Luther King Jr. ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159968141
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for using nonviolent , methods based on his Christian beliefs.


King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama.

]]> 2017-03-14 13:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159968141 James Bevel ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159970057 James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was a minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. As the Director of Direct Action and of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), he initiated, strategized, directed, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era:[1][2] the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, the 1965 Selma voting rights movement, and the 1966 Chicago open housing movement.[3] He suggested that SCLC call for and join a March on Washington in 1963.[4] Bevel later strategized the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, which contributed to Congressional passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.]]> 2017-03-14 13:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159970057 Fred Shuttlesworth ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159971309 Fred Shuttlesworth, born March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011),[1] was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961.[2] He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007. He helped Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.]]> 2017-03-14 13:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159971309 Oranization ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159972125 Southern Christian Leadership Conference joined with Birmingham existing local movement The Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city's segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham's merchants.]]> 2017-03-14 13:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/159972125 Timeline: ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160231154 -1947-Arthur Shores filed the first legal challenge to Birmingham's segregated zoning laws on the behalf of Samuel Mathews.
-1954 May 17th- The United States supreme court issued its ruling prohibiting segregated public schools in Brown V. Board of Education.
-1958-Birmingham police arrested ministers who were organizing a bus boycott leading to an FBI inquiry allegations of misconduct.
-1962 February 12th-MLK spoke at an ACMHR sponsored at the 16th Street Baptist Church.
-1963-MLK, Ralph Abernathy, and Fred Shuttlesworth led a march from  St Pauls Methodish Church.
-1963-MLK completed his "Letter from Birmingham jail."  ]]> 2017-03-15 12:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160231154 Key Strategies: ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160233514 MLK spoke to black citizens about the philosophy of nonviolence and its methods, and extended appeals for volunteers at the end of the meetings.]]> 2017-03-15 13:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160233514 Amendments: ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160234120 The 14th amendment is being violated "Separate but Equal" ]]> 2017-03-15 13:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160234120 Court Cases: MLK was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham. A court had ordered that MLK could not hold protests in Birmingham. ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160235084 2017-03-15 13:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160235084 How did it influence other groups toward Civil Rights? ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160238935 The Birmingham Campaign influenced other groups toward Civil Rights because the leaders of the BC were peaceful. They didn't use violence or harsh words in anything they did and they did everything with love and peace.This encouraged other people to be a part of Civil Rights, or at least influenced them not to be against it.]]> 2017-03-15 13:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160238935 ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160241981 2017-03-15 13:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160241981 Video ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160242692 2017-03-15 13:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160242692 ablake0811 https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160243973 2017-03-15 13:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ablake0811/emxsd8lmt6mn/wish/160243973