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Violence on National Television

In the early months of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. prepared protests and demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. The local chief of police, Eugene Connor, told his men to shoot discharge water against the demonstrators and set free ferocious dogs on the resisters. However, a television network captured the string scenes on the demonstrations, several shots of them showing attacks and arrests of black children, and transmitted the images to shocked national viewers. As a result, many Northerners became attentive of the troubles of many African-Americans in the South.
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Civil Rights Movement

During the Civil Rights Movement, blacks and their allies wanted three primary objectives: integrated public schools, breakup of public accommodations such as buses and trains, water fountains and restrooms, restaurants, the privileged to hike to street unmolested and perhaps the most significant, voting rights. The undemanding justice personified in these requests had waited on the margins of political life since the 1870s disloyalty of black Reconstruction by officials and their masters.
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