As project c began to unfold in birmingham in the spring and summer of 1963, how were these events reported to the nation and world?

The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to draw attention to the efforts of the African-American population in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the nonviolent confrontation campaign culminated in confrontations between young black students and widely publicized white civic authorities. Finally, this led the municipal government to change the discriminatory laws of the city.

At the beginning of the decade of 1960, Birmingham was one of the cities of the United States with greater racial division, caused by the laws and the culture. Black citizens faced economic and legal inequalities and violent retribution when they tried to draw attention to their problems. The protests in Birmingham began with a boycott led by Shuttlesworth to pressure business owners to employ people of all races and to end racial segregation in public facilities, restaurants, schools and shops. When local and government business leaders resisted, the SCLC agreed to support them. Organizer Wyatt Tee Walker joined Birmingham activist Shuttlesworth and began what they called Project C, a series of sit-ins and marches intended to provoke mass arrests.

Historian Glenn Eskew wrote that the campaign "led to an awakening to the evils of segregation and the need for reforms in the region." The middle class of people of color generally assumed leadership in Birmingham and the SCLC, while the lower class still struggled. According to Eskew, the riots that followed the bombing of the Gaston Motel were a precursor to riots in the larger cities in the late 1960s.

Wyatt Tee Walker wrote that the Birmingham campaign was "legend" and had become the most important chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. It was "the main basin of the nonviolent movement in the United States, it was the maturation of the SCLC as a national force in the field of civil rights, on the land that had been dominated by the NAACP."

Jonathan Bass, stated that "King has won a great public relations victory in Birmingham", but also, emphatically stated "it was the citizens of the Magic City, both white and black, and not Martin Luther King and neither the SCLC, who performed the true transformation of the city. "

The declaration opens with a preamble describing the document's necessity in explaining why the colonies have overthrown their ruler and chosen to take their place as a separate nation in the world.

All men are created equal and there are certain unalienable rights that governments should never violate. These rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When a government fails to protect those rights, it is not only the right, but also the duty of the people to overthrow that government. In its place, the people should establish a government that is designed to protect those rights. Governments are rarely overthrown, and should not be overthrown for trivial reasons. In this case, a long history of abuses has led the colonists to overthrow a tyrannical government.

The King of Great Britain, George III, is guilty of 27 specific abuses. The King interfered with the colonists' right to self-government and for a fair judicial system. Acting with Parliament, the King also instituted legislation that affected the colonies without their consent. This legislation levied taxes on the colonists. It also required them to quarter British soldiers, removed their right to trial by jury, and prevented them from trading freely. Additionally, the King and Parliament are guilty of outright destruction of American life and property by their refusal to protect the colonies' borders, their confiscation of American ships at sea, and their intent to hire foreign mercenaries to fight against the colonists.

The colonial governments tried to reach a peaceful reconciliation of these differences with Great Britain, but were continually ignored. Colonists who appealed to British citizens were similarly ignored, despite their shared common heritage and their just cause. After many peaceful attempts, the colonists have no choice but to declare independence from Great Britain.

The new nation will be called the United States of America and will have no further connections with Great Britain. The new government will reserve the right to levy war, make peace, make alliances with foreign nations, conduct trade, and do anything else that nations do.