![]() Kennedy was urged to intervene on his behalf. Thrown into solitary confinement, King was initially denied access to his lawyers or allowed to contact his wife, until President John F. For months, an organized boycott of the city’s white-owned businesses had failed to achieve any substantive results, leaving King and others convinced they had no other options but more direct actions, ignoring a recently passed ordinance that prohibited public gathering without an official permit.įor King, this arrest-his 13th-would become one of the most important of his career. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered by blacks in one of the most segregated cities in America-Birmingham, Alabama. ![]()
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