![]() ![]() In 1967, King ended up spending another five days in jail in Birmingham, along with three others, after their appeals of their contempt convictions failed. Abernathy, were promptly thrown into jail.” ![]() Both King and one of his top aides, the Rev. ![]() “King announced that he would ignore it, led some 1,000 Negroes toward the business district. “Last week Connor and Police Chief Jamie Moore got an injunction against all demonstrations from a state court,” TIME reported. ![]() The notoriously violent segregationist police commissioner “Bull” Connor had lost his run-off bid for mayor, and despite Martin Luther King Jr.’s declaration that the city was the most segregated in the nation, protests were starting to be met with quiet resignation rather than uproar.Īt least that’s what TIME thought: in the April 19 issue of that year, under the headline “ Poorly Timed Protest,” the magazine cast King as an outsider who did not consult the city’s local activists and leaders before making demands that set back Birmingham’s progress and drew Bull Connor’s ire. In the spring of 1963, in Birmingham, Ala., it seemed like progress was finally being made on civil rights. ![]()
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