Fountain Heights in Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
The Good Friday March
March Route to Government
Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail
Photographed by Mark Hilton, December 5, 2021
1. The Good Friday March Marker
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The Good Friday March. March Route to Government. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hoped to gain more national attention for the Birmingham campaign by planning marches during Holy Week - on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. But "Bull Connor created serious problems for King. Connor got a local judge to order King and other "Project C" leaders to stop all demonstrations. Connor also got bond companies to greatly increase the amount of bail money needed to free jailed protestors. At this point in his life, King had never disobeyed a judge's order. King's peers knew he was the best person to raise the additional bail money. But how could he do that if he were jailed too? After a moment of soul-searching, King decided to lead the defiant march., Paired marker , April 12, 1963 , Reverends Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lead a march to City Hall on Good Friday. Abernathy and King are arrested along with 50 protestors, ranging in age from 15 to 81 years old. King's arrest seals his status as one of the most important leaders in the American Civil Rights Movement. While in custody, King pens his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in response to White clergymen's open letter in The Birmingham News that criticized him and the campaign. His Letter becomes a major protest document of the 20th Century. , "Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle." , Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Lesson A8: MLK wrote, "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here." Read and memorize other portions of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hoped to gain more national attention for the
Birmingham campaign by planning marches during Holy Week - on Palm
Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. But "Bull Connor created serious problems for King. Connor got a local judge to order King and other
"Project C" leaders to stop all demonstrations. Connor also got bond
companies to greatly increase the amount of bail money needed to free
jailed protestors. At this point in his life, King had never disobeyed a
judge's order. King's peers knew he was the best person to raise the additional bail money. But how could he do that if he were jailed too? After a
moment of soul-searching, King decided to lead the defiant march.
Paired marker
April 12, 1963
Reverends Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Ralph David
Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lead a
march to City Hall on Good Friday. Abernathy and
King are arrested along with 50 protestors, ranging
in age from 15 to 81 years old. King's arrest seals his
status as one of the most important leaders in the
American Civil Rights Movement. While in custody,
King pens his famous "Letter
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from Birmingham
Jail" in response to White clergymen's open letter
in The Birmingham News that criticized him and the
campaign. His Letter becomes a major protest
document of the 20th Century.
"Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lesson A8: MLK wrote, "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here."
Read and memorize other portions of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Erected by the Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail. (Marker Number A8.)
Location. 33° 31.122′ N, 86° 48.636′ W. Marker is in Birmingham, Alabama, in Jefferson County. It is in Fountain Heights. It is at the intersection of 19th Street North and 6th Avenue North, on the left when traveling north on 19th Street North. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Birmingham AL 35203, United States of America. Touch for directions.
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Photographed by Mark Hilton
2. The Good Friday March paired marker.
this marker is in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Regarding The Good Friday March. The Civil Rights Activist Committee Home of the Foot Soldiers is the Information Center for the Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail.
Photographed by Mark Hilton, December 5, 2021
3. The Good Friday March Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on January 8, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 9, 2021, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. This page has been viewed 763 times since then and 37 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on December 9, 2021, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
