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White Backlash
- assassination of Medger Evers
- The KKK 16th street Baptist church bombing: 4 young black girls were killed.
Federal action
-Birmingham + University of Alabama convinced Kennedy action was needed. To draft a civil rights bill
- President Kennedy was assassinated before he could sign the Act into Law.
Limited desegregation
-Desegregation in Birmingham took place slowly after the demonstrations
- negotiations including hiring of blacks in local businesses in 90 days. Only 1 was hired.
- by July most segregation laws overturned
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