The  Children’s March 1963-1964

Birmingham, Alabama was a very segregated city. In 1963 there was a law that the blacks and the whites could be separated but they had to be equal. And it was not equal. Rosa Parks, Dr. King,and Rev. James Bevel were some of the most influential people. A lot of people who were police officers and who worked in city hall were a part of the Klan. Bull Conner got elected and he was supposed to follow the law because he was the state governor. But he didn’t follow the law and he made things more segregated. Black adults were scared because they might lose their car, house, or their job. So the kids organized a day when they would all leave school and go down to 16th street church and the park to protest. Their plan was to flood the jails. It was funny to me because they were all shouting,” Were gonna go to jail” with smiles on their faces. After this day it kept happening again and again. The police and fire department used hoses to knock down the protesters in effort to stop them but they came down with their bathing suits on! After this went on President Kennedy finally said that it was not right to have segregated communities and that put an end to it. But at 16th street church the Klan was plotting a bombing. It killed four little girls.