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The Civil Rights Children’s Crusade

HISTORY This Week

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The Threats of Student Marching in Birmingham

Birmingham preacher Fred Shuttlesworth has told Martin Luther King all about Bull Connor. He's the symbol of police brutality in the south, he says. Jesse Shepard is among them. She goes out to protest one day and finds that the authorities have escalated things. City firemen cornered groups of protesters with high pressure streams from their hoses.

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