Kelly Ingram Park, built in 1871 and renovated from 1979 to the mid-1990s, was the main battleground in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, called Project C, with C meaning Confrontation. The campaign was a joint effort of the local Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and the national Southern Christian Leadership Conference from April to May 1963. The park was named for a Birmingham firefighter who was the first American sailor killed in World War I. In the 1990s, Dr. Richard Arrington, Jr., Birmingham's first African-American mayor, redesigned the park to honor its civil rights significance as A Place of Revolution, A Place of Reconciliation.