An NAACP lawyer from New York, Norman Amaker, arrived to provide legal advice. In room 30 of the Gaston Hotel, just around the corner of the 16 th Street Baptist Church, explained that while the injunction was unconstitutional, that would not keep the demonstrators and the strategy leaders out of jail. Since SCLC no longer had enough funds to post bail for those willing to go to jail, demonstrators could be held up to six months.

If King, Abernathy, Shuttlesworth, and Walker break the injunction and are arrested, they could no longer raise funds or organize bringing Project C to a halt. Furthermore, they may remain in jail for months while federal courts review the constitutionality of the state court order.