Child Shall Lead Them

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Montgomery: Just To See Empty Bus, After Empty Bus Go By
2. Sitting-in And Riding For Freedom
3. Birmingham And The Children’s Crusade
4. Mississippi: Made To Disappear
5. Selma: What We Talk About Has Also To Do With The Children
6. Who Will Carry The Freedom Struggle Forward?
Notes
Index

Additional Info
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story-the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.

What role did young people play, and how did they support the efforts of their elders? What did they see-and what did they do?-that their elders were unable to envision? How did children play their part in the liberation of their people?

In this project, Burrow reveals the surprising power of youth to change the world.