Shortly after the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended successfully in 1957, Rev. Shuttlesworth invited Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. to Birmingham to become the “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” Reverends Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King, Jr., AD King (Martin’s brother), Ralph D Abernathy, Wyatt T Walker, Andrew Young and others forged Project C for “Confrontation” at meetings held in their churches and AG Gaston Motel.

By 1960, Birmingham became Ground Zero for Confrontation in the Civil Rights Movement when a plummeting steel market and job loss played right into the hands of evildoers. The Klu Klux Klan (KKK) galvanized poor European Americans against African Americans and Jewish Americans. Birmingham’s other citizens stood by as churches and homes in the Black and Jewish communities were bombed. Birmingham had so many church bombings from 1957-1964 that it had a well-earned nickname, “Bombingham.” Definitely not the marketing slogan civic boosters wanted.

Source: Birmingham Civil Rights Movement | Soul Of America | Birmingham