abstract:The Children's Crusade was the name bestowed upon a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2, May 3, May 4, and May 5, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement's Birmingham Campaign. Initiated and organized by Rev.
After all, in focusing the international spotlight on the leader of this campaign, the committee has put into sharp relief the true character of this campaign: an aging Flower Child's crusade that is approximately as out of touch with reality as that mounted by actual children bent on liberating the Holy Land some eight centuries ago.