I grew up near Birmingham.
It would be an instructive exercise to compare Birmingham 1963 to present day Birmingham.
The county (Jefferson) is now bankrupt, for starters. And, like many other urban areas, Birmingham is now surrounded by newer, nicer cities - the population having shifted to the outskirts. What remains in the actual city limits of Birmingham is not so nice.
Lots of forces caused this...but it can’t be ignored that ‘white flight’ was one of them. In other words, most with the means to leave did just that...Birmingham is now less than one quarter white by population.
In many ways, the civil rights movement has failed...as soon as the southern democrats realized they couldn’t stop the movement, they co-opted it, and morphed it with Johnson’s socialist agenda, as well as a style of woman’s liberation movement that viewed men as problematic. The result: Birmingham, Detroit, etc, etc.
Its been argued that non-violent civil disobedience leads to violent civil disobedience. The historical record of 1963 indicates that.
There are potential consequences to such protests if people defending their freedom choose that route today.