 On April 10 , 1963 , Bull Connor obtained an injunction barring the protests and subsequently raised bail bond for those arrested from $ 300 to $ 1 @,@ 200 ( $ 2 @,@ 000 to $ 9 @,@ 000 in 2016 ) . Fred Shuttlesworth called the injunction a " flagrant denial of our constitutional rights " and organizers prepared to defy the order . The decision to ignore the injunction had been made during the planning stage of the campaign . King and the SCLC had obeyed court injunctions in their Albany protests and reasoned that obeying them contributed to the Albany campaign 's lack of success . In a press release they explained , " We are now confronted with recalcitrant forces in the Deep South that will use the courts to perpetuate the unjust and illegal systems of racial separation " . Incoming mayor Albert Boutwell called King and the SCLC organizers " strangers " whose only purpose in Birmingham was " to stir inter @-@ racial discord " . Connor promised , " You can rest assured that I will fill the jail full of any persons violating the law as long as I 'm at City Hall . " 
