The Smallest Feet Led the Way
On May 2, 1963, the doors of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama swung open, and a stream of children poured into the streets....
This is a contemporary on youth and courage, drawing on Matthew 18:3.
On May 2, 1963, the doors of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama swung open, and a stream of children poured into the streets. They were six, ten, fourteen years old. For weeks, SCLC strategist James Bevel had been recruiting students from Birmingham's schools, training them in nonviolence, preparing them for what the adults had grown too cautious to attempt.…
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