Results & Significance B

• King's campaign in Birmingham

  Did little to improve the situation as no meaningful agreement on segregation was reached and race relations deteriorated
• Bomb killed 4 young black girls attending Sunday school- Black leaders: 'We want 'no more outside help/interference''

  September 1963
• The publicity generated in Birmingham exposed Southern bigotry at its worst
• The publicity generated in Birmingham inspired black protests throughout the South
• The publicity generated in Birmingham helped persuade Kennedy to promote the bill that became the 1964 Civil Rights Act which ended de jure segregation in the South
• Mass demonstrations


  The greatest weapon of the Civil Rights Movement, according to King