Children worked on their parent's farms before the 1800's. Once factories started developing, children started working there. Why did children work in factories? Why was there Child Labor? While you read further into this you'll find out more about the Children's Civil Rights Movement.

 With children working in factories, they were paid less than adults. Children always got hurt. They got their fingers cut off. Children also didn't get enough education. The owners of the factories, followed kids home from school. The parents had to sign work papers for the kids to work. When the children went to school, it was for three months a year.

 In 1903, Mother Jones led 200 kids from Philadelphia to New York. The march was called  "Children's Crusade". Mother Jones and the 200 kids marched for Social Rights. The methods were successful because the congress agrees and passes the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Supreme Court banned Child Labor. This happened in 1938.

 When Child Labor was banned, there was a lot achievements. Children got what they wanted. Which was, them not having to work in factories. They also got to go to school and get and education. The children also got to have a normal childhood. They got to spend time with their friends and play with their friends after school. They also didn't have to work until a certain age. If you did work, you were also paid the same amount of money as the adults working there.

 So basically, at the end of children not getting their rights, they were successful and came out the winners. Going back a little bit, parents had to make a hard decision when they had work papers. The parents had to sign the papers mainly because they needed the money. Especially if they had a lot of kids in the family.  They had to find a way to get the money that they needed to support their family. Even if that meant that they had to send their kids to work with the high probability of the kids getting hurt. Now when kids work, they can't work in places where it would be too dangerous for kids. Places like, factories, and mines.        You can't work in mines, under the age of 18.  If it wasn't for the Supreme Court banning Child Labor, and the congress passing the Fair Labor Standards Act, who knows what would've happened. We still would've been working and not being able to go to school and get an education and have a normal childhood. So thank you to every body that was part getting Child Labor banned forever. Especially Mother Jones.