The local government's first response was:
D.
arrest protesters and send them to jail.
Explanation:
Birmingham protests were some of the most successful protests that were organised in the time of the civil war movement.
It started off with a few arrests as will be given here but then the authorities were really put in a precarious situation.
This was because the goal set by the local campaign was to attack the system of segregation as a whole during Birmingham's Easter season which involved a lot of business.
This imminent laws made the government unable to ploy force at large.
