How Did The Birmingham Campaign Affect The Civil Rights Movement?

Given the hardships and struggles the demonstrators in the Birmingham Campaign went through within the span of a month to get Birmingham desegregated, it is easy to see why the Birmingham Campaign is considered one of the most influential campaigns of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, however, this is not the only reason for such. A little over a year after the end of the campaign, in July 2nd of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964- the prohibition of discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, or national origin- was signed into law by the 35th President of the United States, Lyondon B. Johnson; among the various other incidents credited for playing a part in the passage of this act lies the Birmingham Campaign- the incident that acted as a sort of catalyst for President John F. Kennedy to deliver his Civil Rights Address on June 11th, 1963, in which he called for a piece of legislation that gave all Americans the right to be served in public establishments and a better protected right to vote. Then, shortly after the end of the Birmingham Campaign on May 10th of 1963 and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28th of that same year, Dr. Rev.
began to work on the third work of his literary career titles Why We Can’t Wait, a narrative of African-American activism during the late spring and early summer of 1963; the work was officially published about a year after the events of the Birmingham Campaign and the March on Washington and shortly before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on June 4th of