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The Children's Crusade Of 1963: The National Civil Rights Movement

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The National Child Labor Committee is a private , non-profit organization in US they supported for the national child labor reform movement. This movement aim is to promote the rights, awareness, dignity and also education of children.
Leading politicians, benefactors , clergymen supported National Child Labour Committee , including former president Grover Cleveland, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina and the president of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot. In 1907 the National Child Labour Committee was chartered by an act of congress with a council of directors originally including important progressive social reformers such as Jane Addams, she was a mother of social work and also pioneer American settlement reformer, social worker, Florence Kelley, she was a social and political reformer her work against sweatshops and eight hour workdays, Edward T. Devine, he was a child welfare advocate and pioneer social worker , Lillian Wald , she was a American nurse , humanitarian and author. She founded the Henry Street Settlement in NYC and …show more content…

But after this event, the nation opened their eyes and it became a courageous activism for the young generations. According to participators of the events, the demonstrations were non-violent. These events took place in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. In this city, employment conditions were awful and working hours were cruel. Also in social life, blacks couldn’t go any fairgrounds, only on “colored days”. So many famous activists joined those demonstrations and Dr. Martin Luther King JR. one of them. In September 1963, a bomb planted by White supremacists and 4 little girls killed, more than 20 children injured. This crusade not just black people movements and at the same time white people movements. Because not just black people supported, white people supported to . They supported human rights and children rights. In this crusade most of the children get

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