Despite jeopardized jobs, intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan, police harassment, and bombings, the success of the boycott was apparent when King and several others boarded a public bus in front of King's home on December 21, 1956. ... He avoided jail time; however, as the police commissioner paid the fine to avoid the publicity King would have garnered. After this police incident, while at a book signing, King was critically stabbed by a deranged black woman. ... Birmingham police seemed to go about this in matters of brutality. ... From all of the brutality this brought upon, the tide ...

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It continues its commitment to nonviolent action to achieve social, economic, and political justice and is currently focused on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality, hate crimes, and discrimination. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ... Their demonstrations were met with arrests, assault by fire hoses and police dogs, and imprisonment. ...

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After further protest of the ridiculous law, the bus driver called the police and Rosa was taken away in hand cuffs. ... The violence and brutality that had been started by mayor Bull Connor's police also helped their effort. ...

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