When americans saw images of the violence in birmingham in 1963, they were shocked by the violent methods of southerners.
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil upheaval carried out in Birmingham, Alabama, that was caused by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted black leaders of the Birmingham campaign, a mass unrest for racial justice. The places bombed were the parsonage of Rev. A. D.