When the Children Filled the Jails
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched...
This is a contemporary on youth and courage, drawing on 1 Timothy 4:12.
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched toward downtown. Some were high schoolers. Some were barely eight years old. They had been trained in nonviolence by James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and they knew exactly what awaited them. Birmingham's Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor ordered their arrest.…
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