Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept of Africana Studies at John Jay College
To read online, click here: “Documenting the Contributions of Children and Teenagers to the Civil Rights Movement”
This article was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the “Children’s March” in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. Article gives an overview of young people’s activities related to activism and the Civil Rights Movement.
Copyrighted article. Available through JSTOR in the library, using John Jay login. Found in The Journal of African American History, 100 (4), 663-671.