During the Birmingham campaign, Martin Luther King Jr. stayed at the Gatson Motel. One day after civil rights activists reached an agreement with the city on May 11, 1963, a bomb was detonated near the window of King's empty room.
The aftermath of a bomb explosion near the Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. and leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were staying.
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