Events in Birmingham

• King's struggle to organise demonstrations

  King struggled to organise demonstrations at first
• Connors police & police dogs started attacking the few protesters

  King was jailed
• King: 'King defended direct action & his provocation of white violence as the best option available to the oppressed in his 'Letter from Birmingham Jail''
• The 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' was written partly on prison toilet paper & published worldwide
• After being released

  King still struggled to mobilise sufficient demonstrators
• Encouraging young black schoolchildren to join the protest marches

  Hundreds did
• Connors high-pressure water hoses tore the clothes off the protesters' backs


  Birmingham was in the headlines again