What was the law people trying to enforce in Birmingham campaign,1963?

Question

like a law that the congress already passed but the government never execute it.

Answer 1

Black verses white. Segregation. [I may be wrong.]

Answer 2

As an outgrowth of the Montgomery bus boycott, protest movements emerged in numerous cities throughout the South. The 1963 campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, the largest industrial city in the South, generated national publicity and federal action due to the particularly violent response of segregationists. According to Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) nonviolent direct action could not have been staged in a more appropriate place, in the "belly of the beast." Along with the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the summer of 1963, the Birmingham campaign created an urgency that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Answer 3

If the federal government were implementing immigration (as states have begged them to do for the final decade), there could be no Arizona regulation. Arizona positioned Obama in a quandry: he had no longer deliberate to take take up any arguable matters till now November elections. He knows the human beings oppose amnesty. His hand has been compelled, although, so now he seeks to repeal the regulation with the aid of fact his "complete immigration reform" is composed of something Arizona's would not, AMNESTY. advantages for crossing illegally. He calls it a "course to citizenship" as all Presidents have while they desire to fool the human beings into believing that's no longer an amnesty.

Answer 4

Segregation. They didn't want to intergrate the schools.

Answer 5

This question is a bit convuluted but will attempt to answer. The Police in Birmingham were instructed by a Judge W.A. Jenkins Jr to arrest anyone of 133 people for 'oragnizing demostrations.' When Martin Luther KIng ignored the order he was arrested. Thus it can be argued that the Police were merely doing their jobs when they beat demosrtaters and unleashed their dogs against crowds that would not disperse.
A laundry list of laws that the .Police were told to enforce would read - A) unlawful assembly, B) Failure to get off the streets when ordered to do so by a Police Officer, C) Agitating a crowd, D) inciting a crowd to riot.

However when all is said and done the Supreme Law in the South, the one Law that was Strictly enforced time & time & time again was 'The Uppidity N - - - - ' law. This was a broad statute that made it clear that Negroes were to accept conditions as they were, walk around with their eyes downcast, answer to derogatory terms, allow themselves to be abused at will by whites.

Here is a link and words....
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/birming.html
""""On April 6, police arrested 45 protesters marching from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to city hall. The next day, Palm Sunday, more people were arrested. In addition, two police dogs attacked nineteen-year-old protester Leroy Allen as a large crowd looked on. In response to the protests, Judge W.A. Jenkins, Jr., issued an order preventing 133 of the city's civil rights leaders, including King, his friend and fellow SCLC leader Ralph Abernathy, and Shuttlesworth from organizing demonstrations. But the Project C plan called for King to be arrested on Good Friday, April 12. After a few hours of debate, King told his staff, "Look, I don't know what to do. I just know that something has got to change in Birmingham. I don't know whether I can raise money to get people out of jail. I do know that I can go into jail with them." [35] King was arrested and put in solitary confinement. There, he read an ad in the Birmingham News, taken out by local white ministers, that called him a troublemaker. He responded to the ad, writing in the margins of the newspaper and on toilet paper. His response was eventually published as his "Letter from Birmingham Jail":

While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely" . . . . Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was "well timed," according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every ***** with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." [36]
King was released on April 20. Meanwhile, SCLC organizers started to plan "D Day." Unlike the other demonstrations, all of the D Day demonstrators would be children. James Bevel explained why the SCLC turned to children as demonstrators:

Most adults have bills to pay -- house notes, rents, car notes, utility bills -- but the young people . . . are not hooked with all those responsibilities. A boy from high school has the same effect in terms of being in jail, in terms of putting pressure on the city, as his father, and yet there's no economic threat to the family, because the father is still on the job." [37]
On May 2, children, ranging in age from six to eighteen, gathered in Kelly Ingram Park, across the street from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Around 1:00, fifty teenagers left the church and headed for downtown, singing "We Shall Overcome." They were arrested and placed in police vans. Another group left the church, and they were also put in vans. Another group left, and another. Soon the police began stuffing the protesters in school buses because there were no more vans. Three hours later, there were 959 children in jail. The jails were absolutely packed.

The next day, over a thousand more children stayed out of school and went to Kelly Ingram Park. Bull Connor was determined not to let them get downtown, but he had no space left in his jails. He brought firefighters out and ordered them to turn hoses on the children. Most ran away, but one group refused to budge. The firefighters turned even more powerful hoses on them, hoses that shot streams of water strong enough to break bones. The force of the water rolled the protesters down the street. In addition, Connor had mobilized K-9 forces, who attacked protesters trying to enter the church. Pictures of the confrontation between the children and the police shocked the nation. The entire country was watching Birmingham.

The demonstrations escalated. Because the jails were filled, the police did not know what to do. Finally, the Birmingham business community, fearing damage to downtown stores, agreed to integrate lunch counters and hire more blacks, over the objections of city officials. King had gotten his much-needed victory."""


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