Children Civil Rights Movement is when children was forced to work at unhealthy/unsafe jobs. The problem that was faced was that people gave seven or eight year olds dangerous jobs like coal mines under very unhealthy/unsafe conditions. Factory workers are finding ways around the law forging children’s working papers. They also give children newsies jobs where children sell newspaper in the street.

     A new resources for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement available on Teaching for Change's website:  Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement. Included in the book are interactive, interdisciplinary lessons, readings, writings, photographs, graphics, and interviews.

      On April 6, police arrested 45 protesters marching from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to city hall. The next day, Palm Sunday, more people were arrested. In addition, two police dogs attacked nineteen-year-old protester Leroy Allen as a large crowd looked on. In response to the protests, Judge W.A. Jenkins, Jr., issued an order preventing 133 of the city's civil rights leaders, including King, his friend and fellow SCLC leader Ralph Abernathy, and Shuttlesworth from organizing demonstrations. But the Project C plan called for King to be arrested on Good Friday, April 12. 

    After a few hours of debate, King told his staff, Look, I don't know what to do. I just know that something has got to change in Birmingham. I don't know whether I can raise money to get people out of jail. I do know that I can go into jail with them.King was arrested and put in solitary confinement. There, he read an ad in the Birmingham News, taken out by local white ministers, that called him a troublemaker. He responded to the ad, writing in the margins of the newspaper and on toilet paper. His response was eventually published as his "Letter from Birmingham Jail”