It makes it hard to want to do much of anything. You feel like you want to be alone, and that you want to go home and veg out until you feel better. Unfortunately, this is a common mistake that has the potential to make your anxiety much worse. Ideally, you need to stay active.
Georgia quickly became a vital production center for the Confederate war effort. Atlanta, the state's rail center, emerged as a home front, and the city contained one of the South's few rolling mills, a quartermaster's depot, and several major military hospitals.
In 1963, Birmingham became a focus for the civil rights movement. Birmingham, as a city, had made its mark on the civil rights movement for a number of years. Whether it was through the activities of Bull Connor or the bombed church which killed four school girls, many Americans would have known about Birmingham by 1963. Both SNCC and the NAACP were relatively inactive in Birmingham; so any civil rights campaign could be lead by SCLC without too much rivalry. Martin Luther Kingâs brother was also a pastor in the city so family connections helped the role of SCLC. Why was Birmingham so important? It was a KKK stronghold and King described it as Americaâs worst city for racism.