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BIRMINGHAM (WVTM) — Sixty-one years after the Children’s Crusade, more than 700 students from across Birmingham came to the historic Civil Rights District to participate in a reenactment of ...

Sixty years after the historic Children's Crusade in Alabama, Janice Wesley Kelsey shares her experience as a 16-year-old foot solider fighting for equality during the Civil Rights Movement.

Sixty years later, alumni of what history dubbed “The Children’s Crusade” joined Attorney General Letitia James, City Council President Adrienne Adams and FDNY Lt. James McCarthy of the city ...

On Monday, four of the roughly 5,000 protesters of the Birmingham "Children's Crusade," now elderly, will be in New York to thank officers of the FDNY for going against Birmingham city officials ...

The AG Gaston Motel is part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, a collection of landmarks associated with 1963 Birmingham Campaign events, like The Children's Crusade.

NPR's Debbie Elliot traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, which is marking the 60th anniversary of the movement, when leaders like Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. looked to children to join the ...

Participants in the 1963 children's crusade remember the protest and its legacy In the spring of 1963, children and youth skipped school to march through downtown Birmingham to protest segregation ...

Birmingham, Ala., is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the city's civil rights movement. It marked a turning point when leaders, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., looked to children to ...

It became known as "The Children's Crusade." Roby chairs the Civil Rights Activist Committee – which has an office in the district that's jam-packed with historic memorabilia. The group documents the ...