A New Strategy: All-Out Attack

A New Strategy: All-Out Attack. March Route for Moral Justice. The ACMHR used nonviolent direct action as its preferred method of attacking racial segregation. This was a clear break from the tactics and strategies of the traditional black middle-class leadership that focused on petitions and lawsuits. Under Rev. Shuttlesworth's leadership, the new organization focused on legal issues and waged an all-out attack on racially segregated accommodations, transportation, schools and discrimination in hiring. It targeted a wide range of issues rather than focusing efforts on a single issue at a time., Paired marker , December 1956 , Even before the ACMHR formed, Rev. Shuttlesworth was an aggressive advocate of nonviolent direct action to end racial segregation. The ACMHR renewed his call to integrate Birmingham's buses and to hire Black police officers, a tactic to end rampant police brutality against Black citizens. When the request for Black police officers was denied, the ACMHR legally challenged the Birmingham Personnel Board's practice of restricting civil service examinations to Whites only. In response, the Board lifted its ban and allowed Blacks to take the exam. Yet none received a job. The ACMHR had much work to do. , "We here in Birmingham are part of this universal fight between right and wrong." , Rev. Fred. L. Shuttlesworth , Bethel Baptist's pastor from 1953 to 1961., Lesson F4: Why was it so important to Civil Rights leaders that the Birmingham Police Department be integrated?