The plan of using children may have been the key element to the success of the protest. When the nation saw the children in Birmingham being sprayed with fire hoses and being attacked by dogs, it brought on an entirely different view of the civil rights movement. The city negotiated with Martin Luther King by Hiring black workers, and also desegregate public accommodates. Bull Connor was finally removed from his office. Because of the protest during the civil rights movement, today Birmingham has a black mayor, William A. Bell,
The plan of using children may have been the key element to the success of the protest. When the nation saw the children in Birmingham being sprayed with fire hoses and being attacked by dogs, it brought on an entirely different view of the civil rights movement. The city negotiated with Martin Luther King by Hiring black workers, and also desegregate public accommodates. Bull Connor was finally removed from his office. Because of the protest during the civil rights movement, today Birmingham has a black mayor, William A. Bell,