WHY THE CHILDREN OF BIRMINGHAM MARCHED
Six-year-old Audrey Hendricks knew not to go to the playground with the clean sandbox and sturdy monkey bars. She could go only to the one with broken swings and bare dirt. James Stewart, who was 12, couldn’t play baseball on the field with a freshly marked diamond. If he stood by the fence to watch white boys play there, a policeman might order him to “move along.”
Unjust Laws
That’s how things were for “Negro” (or Black) children in Birmingham, Alabama, and throughout the South
