Birmingham, Al… Washington, DC
Sixty years ago today is known as “D-Day” in Birmingham, Alabama, when thousands of children began a 10-week-long series of protests against segregation that became known as the Children’s Crusade. Hundreds were arrested.
The next day, “Double D-Day,” the local head of the police, Bull Connor, ordered his white police force to begin using high-pressure fire hoses and dogs to attack the children. One photograph captured the moment when a white police officer allowed a large German shepherd dog to attack a young Black boy.
Four months after the protests began, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Black Birmingham church, killing four young girls — Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair.
[Note: We r waiting for Alma Cross, daughter of Rev John Cross, pastor of 16th Street Bapt Church, to tell her story about life & healING on and after September 15 1963. Alma was also in Sunday School that day🙏🏽]
We revisit the history of the Children’s Crusade with two guests: civil rights activist Janice Kelsey, who joined the Children’s Crusade as a 16-year-old in 1963, and author Paul Kix.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/2/birmingham_childrens_crusade
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