<aside> 🔥 Birmingham (colloquially known as bombing ham), was infamous racist part of the south, John Lewis lived here and had his house bombed by the KKK. Organised around the 16th street Baptist church

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'Project C' → Project 'Confrontation' to spread the image repression of black suffering around the world and catalyse a federal response.

• It was the first time where an entire community was mobilised to campaign against bull Conner running for major.
• MLK led a demonstration and went to Jail after being unsure how to continued.
• There was about 500-600 people in Jail from early demonstrations, pressure from the rhetoric of Kennedy and
• This Catalysed the 'Letter from Jail' written to John F. Kennedy by MLK from Birmingham Jail
• Children and young African American joined the protests and joining the March in Birmingham. Over 700 children in the first day of protests are arrested.

Bull Connor ordered police dogs and water hosing to manage these large amounts of children. Footage of firehoses shooting water at small black girls standing.

• Mass news coverage of the Event shocked the general public of the nation. This Event shows the importance of the media. Russia news paper 'Pravda' ran propaganda of American police brutalising young black children which put international pressure on the federal government as they were critiqued around the world.

= Over 2000 Children were imprisoned

Significance

JFK called civil rights a moral issue → addressed the issued and recognised the need to change. He asked the congress of the unites states

• Catalyses him to write the civil rights act which will be signed in 1964
• He responded to the situation by deploying 3000 federal troops.

Pushing for a new civil rights bill.