Black History: Special Delivery!!
Remembering the 1963 Children’s March
Video from Omar García Pérez Youtube Channel
Check out this powerful video that chronicles the historic Birmingham Children’s March/Crusade of 1963. These children risked their own personal safety to protest injustice. It is ironic that the children were called into service because possibly adult were not willing to take the risk.
Gwen Gamble was one of the youth who took part in the Children’s March. When asked about the march she commented, “We left the church with our picket signs and our walking shoes…..Some of us even had our rain coats because we knew that we were going to be hosed down by the water hoses“
January 8, 2016 at 6:15 pm
Incredible. I have some still photos magazine photos but nothing tells the story like a video. I’m speechless.
January 8, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Yes. So powerful!!
January 8, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Such courage.
January 8, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Yes. So powerful!!
January 8, 2016 at 6:17 pm
Just like the world was watching then. The world is watching now…
January 8, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Yes! So true
January 8, 2016 at 6:30 pm
The Children’s Crusade was such an incredible undertaking. I have enjoyed researching and learning about it. Have you heard of the book, ” “witness to freedom”? It is a great book. It is actually a book for children about the children’s March. My daughter read it a few years ago. Powerful images. It is told in the voice of the children who actually participated in the March.