Answer:
At the time, the participants had to face both gains and failures in a very painful and long process. Despite such painful events, their fight was no in vain, as the Civil Rights Movement was intensified, and eventually, African Americans got the basic civil rights they demanded.
Explanation:
At the time, the participants had to face both gains and failures in a very painful and long process.
Although by 1961 police brutality in Albany lessen a little (with 500 demonstrators arrested but no clashes reported), the lack of reliable gains in that city pushed King and the SCLC to leave to Birmingham. There, King´s being arrested and his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
draw media attention to the matter. Although police brutality against student marchers continued, measures to desegregate some businesses begun to be applied.
After the march over Washington and King´s famous "I have a dream speech", four girls were assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan, and President Kennedy was killed shortly after.
Despite such painful events, their fight was no in vain, as the Civil Rights Movement was intensified, and eventually, African Americans got the basic civil rights they demanded.
