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Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a rally in Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist ChurchBirmingham’s black churches served as vital community rallying points and training centers for nonviolent protest throughout the direct-action campaign known as "Project C"—for confrontation. On May 2, 1963, from the city’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, King launched his controversial yet highly successful "children’s crusade," in which protesters ranging in age from six to eighteen marched to demand their freedom. Televised scenes of those children being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses, menaced by police dogs, and loaded into paddy wagons did much to turn public opinion against Birmingham city officials. On May 10, King and his SCLC colleagues announced that a four-point settlement had been reached. It provided for desegregation of various facilities in all downtown stores within ninety days; adoption of nonracial hiring and promotion practices by those stores within sixty days; release of all imprisoned protestors; and establishment of permanent avenues of communication between white and black leaders.
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