The Children's Crusade

Birmingham — 1963

[© Bob Adelman]

 


  We shall not,
  we shall not be moved

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth leading marchers in prayer
just before they are arrested in early April.

[UPI Photo]

 
[National Archives photo] [Photographer Unknown]

 
[Birmingham Civil Rights Institute photo]

 

16th Street Baptist Church — Movement Headquarters.
(Birmingham Civil Rights Institute photo.)

[© Bill Hudson]

Police dogs attack nonviolent marcher.
[World Wide Photo]

Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy under arrest on Good Friday.
[Birmingham Civil Rights Institute photo]

Thousands of men, women, boys, and girls, are arrested
for violating Birmingham's segregation laws.

(Birmingham Civil Rights Institute photo.)

[© Birmingham News] [© Birmingham News]
[© Birmingham News] Rythmn & Blues singer Al Hibbler and students stopped by cops for picketing near Trailways bus station.
Parker High student Mattie Howard under arrest. [© Birmingham News]
[AP photo]

 

Young nonviolent warriors on their way to jail.

[Wide World Photo]

With the jails full, student protesters are incarcerated in buildings at the county fair grounds.
[Wide World Photo]

On the orders of Bull Connor, high-pressure firehoses are used against young demonstrators.
[© Matt Herron]

 

The courage of the children inspires their elders.
Mass meeting, Bethel Baptist Church, 1963.

[© Gary Haynes]

 

"I was really, really involved. I didn't realize at the time how dangerous the situation was. The only thing I was concerned with was that I wanted my freedom, I wanted to be able to go where I wanted, like everyone else did."

 — Dannela Bryant, Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History

 
[© Ken Thompson]

But other children are being taught other lessons...

In the deep south the KKK operates openly with the support of police and politicians. Parents bring their children to public Klan rallies to teach another generation the lessons of hate and bigotry.

 

September 15, 1963

Seventeen days after the March on Washington the Klan Strikes Back

[photographer unknown] [photographer unknown]
    Addie Mae Collins (14)
    Cynthia Wesley (14)
    Carole Robertson (14)
    Denise McNair (11)
[© Matt Herron]

[© Matt Herron]

[© John Kouns]

 

Dorie Ladner of SNCC at the funeral of the murdered children.

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