In 1962, segregation was still a way of life despite the ACMHR's heroic and dangerous direct action campaigns and its multiple lawsuits. Rev. Shuttlesworth believed more pressure had to be put on the city, and he and other ACMHR leaders had spent several years urging Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to bring the SCLC and the national attention that followed him to Birmingham. He finally agreed to a joint direct action campaign by the local ACMHR and the national SCLC, driven by the belief that a victory in Birmingham would break the back of racial segregation across the country. Bethel was bombed a third time in December 1962 even though Rev. Shuttlesworth was no longer its pastor, and his determination remained clear in his words: "I organized to fight segregation. This means you can never be still."