What was significance about the March on Birmingham?

Answer 1

it was a campaign during the civil rights movement in which African Americans marched for their rights. it lasted three days in which children volentarily got arrested. the first day there was a recorded 600 arrests, the second day there were 1,200 in the 900-capacity Birmingham jail. by the third day there was more than 3000 arrests.

The Birmingham Campaign was a strategic effort by the SCLC to promote civil rights for African Americans. It's goal was to end the City's segregated civil and discriminatory economic policies. On 2 May more than 1,000 African American students attempted to march into Downtown Birmingham, and hundreds were arrested. When hundreds more gathered the following day, Commissioner Connor directed local police and fire departments to use force to halt the demonstrations. During the next few days images of children being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses, clubbed by police officers, and attacked by police dogs appeared on television and in newspapers, triggering international outrage. While leading a group of child marchers, Shuttlesworth himself was hit with the full force of a fire hose and had to be hospitalized. King offered encouragement to parents of the young protesters: ''Don't worry about your children, they're going to be alright. Don't hold them back if they want to go to jail. For they are doing a job for not only themselves, but for all of America and for all mankind'' (King, 6 May 1963).