Children's Crusade

In April, American televisions started showing footage of civil rights activists being sprayed by high-pressure house and attacked by police dogs. At the beginning of May, MLK made a decision to recruit high school students to march in the streets of Birmingham to protest the city's segregation; believing that police would never harm children. 

King was wrong. When over a thousand African-American children marched on May 2, 1963, The police used the exact same tactics to break up their peaceful protest. Americans watched as police knocked down, sprayed, and sent dogs after Birmingham's children.