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Built in 1959-60 at 1517 5th Ave. N., the A. G. Gaston Building housed the second floor conference room where Project C's Coordinating Committee held regular meetings and planned strategies for the April-May 1963 marches, boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and other demonstrations. Birmingham resident Ruth Barefield Pendleton, secretary for the SCLC-ACHMR Committee, took minutes during these meetings, and some of her notes were later compiled into the book "Minutes: Central Committee 1963." A. G. Gaston at first opposed the mass demonstrations, especially the use of children in the Birmingham Movement, but he later became one of the Movement's key financial supporters and helped bail arrested marchers out of jail after seeing a girl knocked head over heels by a water hose's powerful blast in Kelly Ingram Park.
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