Children's Crusade

The resources below will help you to answer the starter questions below and your own questions about the Children's Crusade and the effectiveness of the Birmingham campaign. View sources on other pages for more detailed information on other aspects of confrontation in Birmingham in 1963. 

Children's Crusade question # 1 -- 

What was Project 'C' and what was necessary for it to work?

Children's Crusade question # 2 -- 

What are some reasons Civil Rights leaders start to prepare children for non-violent protests?

More great resources for the Children's Crusade, Project C,  and Birmingham history the spring of 1963 --

2)  Birmingham Campaign

-- More information about non-violent protest, the decision to include children, and reasons for compromise by city government and businesses

3)  Children's March 1963: A Defiant Moment

-- Memories of participants in the Children's March, including how many went against parent's wishes in support of the cause

4)  How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil-Rights Movement

-- Another description with different details and memories

5)  ‘A powerful and frightening experience:' UMBC’s Hrabowski recalls King's call for the Children’s Crusade of 1963 

--  A description from a well-educated, 'privileged,' teenage participant in the marches 

6)  March to Government

-- Other protest marches to city hall and a description of the path leading up to the marches May 2-4

7)  Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail   

-- The orange line on this map from the corner of 6th Ave & 16th Street to the park in front of City Hall on 20th Street marks is the path on which most of the marchers were arrested or assaulted

8) 1963: The Year That Changed Everything    (Use Link available in Google Classroom!)

-- This is the film we watched in class

Additional great resources from the "Segregation" page

9) Birmingham 1963 -- a summary and review of segregation and confrontation

-- Background of segregation and turmoil in Birmingham, power of the KKK and Bull Connor, events of the Children's March and following period

10) Civil Rights: Birmingham Campaign 

-- a review of segregation, Jim Crow laws, Civil Rights, protest, and confrontation

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