The Civil Rights Movement continues/the Birmingham Campaign begins: as President Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads peaceful, non-violent protests against racial segregation in Birmingham, alabama.  The campaign’s goals are racial integration of Birmingham’s downtown stores, unbiased hiring practices in city employment, the reopening of government-run parks, and the establishment of a bi-racial committee to desegregate the city’s government-run public schools.

       [restored 10/4/2022]