The Children's Crusade

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Birmingham Alabama was one of the most segregated cities in the USA in 1963. In May that year thousands of black schoolchildren responded to a call from Martin Luther King to protest against segregation at the height of the civil rights movement. It became known as the Children's Crusade. Gwendolyn Webb was 14 years old at the time. In 2013 she spoke to Ashley Byrne about her experiences.

Photo: African American children are attacked by dogs and water cannons during a protest against segregation in May 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds you're listening to the
1:00.4	witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me Ashley Byrne.
1:05.0	Today I'm taking you back to May 2nd 1963 when thousands of school children
1:11.0	took to the streets of the US City of Birmingham, Alabama
1:14.8	to protest against segregation. Their protest became known as the Children's Crusade,
1:20.4	and one of the children who marched was 14 year old Gwendolen Webb.
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