Why did martin Luther king target Birmingham Alabama for a civil rights campaign?

Answer 1

Martin Luther King went to Birmingham Alabama because it was the most heavily segregated area at the time. He offered to put himself in jail assuming that other blacks would follow his example. Instead, blacks stayed home. After he got out of jail, he tried to see if any adults would also go to jail for this cause. NO adults stood up, but the children did. The children went to jail and ended segregation.

Answer 2

Birmingham, Alabama was important in 1963 because it served as one of the strongest footholds in the civil right movement. The Birmingham Campaign was a strategic effort by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to promote civil rights for African Americans. Photographs of brutal police force with fire hoses and police dogs revealed to the nation the horrors of segregation in America. Bombing of the Gaston Motel and the arresting of Martin Luther King, Jr. would set the tone for the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

September 15, 1963

11-year-old Denise McNair and three 14-year-olds: Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins were killed when a dynamite bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The girls had been in a basement dressing room, discussing their first days at school and preparing for the 11:00am Adult Service. The church had been a center for many civil rights rallies and meetings, and after the tragedy, it became a focal point drawing many moderate whites into the civil rights movement.

By the end of the day, riots and fires had broken out throughout Birmingham and another 2 teenagers were dead.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Because it was considered the most segregrated city in the South

Answer 5

because it was considerd the most segregated city in the south

Answer 6

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