Preserving the past: WVTM 13 video shows Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama

Video above: WVTM 13 archival footage shows the Civil Rights Movement in BirminghamIn 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set their sights on what King referred to as “the most segregated city in America” — Birmingham, Alabama.The Birmingham Campaign, also known as “Project C” for confrontation, according to the Bill of Rights Institute, would be “the toughest fight of our careers” agreed SCLC leaders.As local legend and activist Fred Shuttlesworth put it, “As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation.”Protestors participated in sit-ins in the days before Easter, defying a court order to disband, and on Good Friday, April 12, marched from Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church to city hall.There, Dr. King and his cohorts would be arrested for their efforts, prompting his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”Valiant moments like these, as well …