 The Birmingham campaign inspired the Civil Rights Movement in other parts of the South . Two days after King and Shuttlesworth announced the settlement in Birmingham , Medgar Evers of the NAACP in Jackson , Mississippi demanded a biracial committee to address concerns there . On June 12 , 1963 , Evers was fatally shot outside his home . He had been organizing demonstrations similar to those in Birmingham to pressure Jackson 's city government . In 1965 Shuttlesworth assisted Bevel , King , and the SCLC to lead the Selma to Montgomery marches , intended to increase voter registration among blacks . 
