Organizer Wyatt Tee Walker joined Connect Birmingham activist Shuttlesworth and began Process_start what they called Project C , a series of sit-ins and marches intended to provoke Causation mass arrests Arrest .

Corral in the town of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp 's Vendetta Ride in the early 1880s .

The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud Competition , with Cowboys Billy Claiborne , Ike and Billy Clanton , and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp , Special Policeman Morgan Earp , Special Policeman Wyatt Earp , and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side .

Virgil , Morgan , and Doc Holliday were wounded Bodily_harm , but Wyatt Earp was unharmed .

Wyatt is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout Hostile_encounter , although his brother Virgil was Tombstone city marshal and deputy U.S. marshal that day and had far more experience as a sheriff , constable , marshal , and soldier in combat .

Wyatt Earp , newly appointed Change_of_leadership as Deputy U.S .

He was pursued by county sheriff Johnny Behan , who had received Receiving a warrant from Tucson for Wyatt 's shooting of Frank Stilwell .