c. dr. martin luther king was solicited to come to birmingham, after a couple failed campaigns, particularly the one in albany, georgia, and they wanted to confronted power structure here in birmingham. he was already unsuccessful in enrolling his children in phillips high school. as a matter of fact he was beaten very badly when he try to do enroll his kids to the high school, so they began to meet here in april and may on mondays, and they would strategize in the behavioral, come up to a packed house, and then go out into the park, democrat freight, confronting bull connor and the power structure to desegregate. the church bombing happened months after the whole operation. the demonstrations, the water hoses, the dogs in the park happened after dr. king's famous "i have a dream" speech. 18 days after that speech, a bomb went off in this church. ironically the sunday school lesson that day was a love where you give. and it was kids -- two girls were killed, and one girl was blinded in one eye by the shrapnel. the congregation against was shocked that somebody would bomb a church. the 11:00