May 3 in American History
In Birmingham, Alabama, police turned fire hoses and dogs on young civil rights marchers, many of them children. The images, broadcast nationwide, horrified the country and became a turning point — the raw cruelty on display made the moral case for civil rights legislation impossible to ignore.
In 1963: the Birmingham "Children's Crusade". In Birmingham, Alabama, police turned fire hoses and dogs on young civil rights marchers, many of them children.
In Birmingham, Alabama, police turned fire hoses and dogs on young civil rights marchers, many of them children. The images, broadcast nationwide, horrified the country and became a turning point — the raw cruelty on display made the moral case for civil rights legislation impossible to ignore.
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