~GUEST POST by Austin Author CYNTHIA LEVINSON Exactly 50 years ago this month, in April 1963, the Civil Rights Movement was heating up in Birmingham, Alabama. A minister there, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, had been trying for seven years to desegregate the city that his friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the most racially violent … Continue reading We’ve Got a Job: Learning How the Children of Birmingham Saved the Civil Rights Movement
