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>> king very wisely sees an opportunity to give more exposure to the civil rights movement and to prod the kennedy administration. >> martin luther king decided that they should have major demonstrations only in areas that local law enforcement would react violently. >> do you think you can keep birmingham in the present situation of segregation? >> i may not be able to do it, but i'll die trying. >> bull connor has a well-known identity as one of the hardest hardliners in defense of segregation. he encouraged the hiring of klansmen on his police force. >> king is assuming that bull connor is ...

We want our freedom now. i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of them, tired of it. you've got to stand up. >> the arrests had started before dawn. in all, fbi men picked up 21 men. included in the group were the chief law officers of the county, sheriff lawrence rainey and deputy cecil price. >> they were murdered by ku klux klanmen with conspiratorial help of the local sheriff. >> bond was set. but less than a week later the accused were set free, their bond lifted. for james cheney's mother, who attended that hearing, it was a shock, frustration, disappointment.

Don't bow down anymore. hold your heads up. we want our freedom now. i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of them, tired of it. you've got to stand up. >> the arrests had started before dawn. in all, fbi men picked up 21 men. included in the group were the chief law officers of the county, sheriff lawrence rainey and deputy cecil price. >> they were murdered by ku klux klanmen with conspiratorial help of the local sheriff. >> bond was set.

The movement was on the brink of extinction when bevel and the nashville movement comes along and says, i've got plenty of teenagers in my youth workshops who are willing to go to jail. >> i was on the phone constantly with jim, with diane, and others about making it happen. >> there's an understandable reluctance on king's part of organizing for students to get arrested when their parents are going to be furious for putting their children in the line of fire. >> finally, it's king who makes the decision to send the children into the streets. >> will you use the hoses and dogs? >> we will use ...

Conner. police overflowed juvenile hall with the youthful demonstrators. all kinds of vehicles had to be pressed into service to carry the negroes. cars, police paddywagons, later in the day, school buses. the sheriff's department estimated upwards of 400 had been arrested. >> instead of 14 adults, you had 600 teenagers and the next day a thousand and that's when the dogs and the fire hoses came out. >> of course, what he was doing was exactly what head of the civil rights movement in birmingham wanted him to do, to create the theater that was going to be broadcast on national television that ...