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BevelвЂ™s rationale for the ChildrenвЂ™s Crusade was that young people represented an untapped source of freedom fighters without the prohibitive responsibilities of older activists. In order to sustain the campaign, SCLC organizer James BevelВ proposed using young children in demonstrations. Bail money was made available, and he was released on 20 April 1963. After she communicated her concern to the Kennedy administration, Birmingham officials permitted King to call home. KingвЂ™s request to call his wife, Coretta Scott King, who was at home in Atlanta recovering from the birth of their fourth child, was denied. During this time King penned the вЂњ Letter from Birmingham Jail вЂќВ on the margins of the Birmingham News, in reaction to a statement published in that newspaper by eight Birmingham clergymen condemning the protests. On Good Friday, 12 April, King was arrested in Birmingham after violating the anti-protest injunction and was kept in solitary confinement. But I have to make a faith act вЂќВ (King, 73). He told his colleagues: вЂњI donвЂ™t know what will happen I donвЂ™t know where the money will come from. King concluded that he must risk going to jail in Birmingham. Given the lack of bail funds, KingвЂ™s services as a fundraiser were desperately needed, but King also worried that his failure to submit to arrests might undermine his credibility. King contemplated whether he and Ralph AbernathyВ should be arrested. Plans to continue to submit to arrest were threatened, however, because the money available for cash bonds was depleted, so leaders could no longer guarantee that arrested protesters would be released. King declared: вЂњWe cannot in all good conscience obey such an injunction which is an unjust, undemocratic and unconstitutional misuse of the legal process вЂќВ (ACMHR, 11 April 1963). After heavy debate, campaign leaders decided to disobey the court order. On 10 April the city government obtained a state circuit court injunction against the protests. With the number of volunteers increasing daily, actions soon expanded to kneel-ins at churches, sit-ins at the library, and a march on the county building to register voters. King spoke to black citizens about the philosophy of nonviolenceВ and its methods, and extended appeals for volunteers at the end of the mass meetings.

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On 3 April the desegregation campaign was launched with a series of mass meetings, direct actions, lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall, and a boycott of downtown merchants.

The campaign was originally scheduled to begin in early March 1963, but was postponed until 2 April when the relatively moderate Albert BoutwellВ defeated BirminghamвЂ™s segregationist commissioner of public safety, Eugene вЂњBull вЂќ Connor, in a run-off mayoral election. As ACMHR founder Fred ShuttlesworthВ stated in the groupвЂ™s вЂњBirmingham Manifesto, вЂќВ the campaign was вЂњa moral witness to give our community a chance to survive вЂќВ (ACMHR, 3 April 1963). In April 1963 King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined with Birmingham, AlabamaвЂ™s existing local movement, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human RightsВ (ACMHR), in a massive direct action campaign to attack the cityвЂ™s segregation system by putting pressure on BirminghamвЂ™s merchants during the Easter season, the second biggest shopping season of the year.