5.
The plan Walker devised for
Birmingham was called Project C—for
confrontation. The staging ground was
the city’s venerable 16th Street Baptist
Church, next to Kelly Ingram Park, and a
few short blocks from downtown
Birmingham. Project C had three acts,
each designed to be bigger and more
provocative than the last. It began with a
series of sit-ins at local businesses. That
was to draw media attention to the
problem of segregation in Birmingham.
At night, Shuttlesworth and King would
lead mass meetings for the local black
community to keep morale high. The