Those student leaders get others interested. Across the South, black and white students begin taking part in sit-ins at lunch counters. Once again, peaceful demonstrations are met with violence. In Birmingham, boys and girls from the high schools, junior highs, and elementary schools want to march . Workshops are held to help them overcome their fears and know how to think on their feet. When some 600 children march out of church singing, Bull Connor arrests them all. The next day another 1,000 children begin a march. One of them is a girl named Patricia King. She writes: "Some of the times that we marched, people would be out there and they would throw rocks and cans and different things at us. I was afraid of getting hurt, but still I was willing to march to see justice done."

Connor calls out his police dogs. Firemen turn on high-pressure hoses. When the water hits the children, they are thrown on the ground and roll screaming down the street . Police dogs bite three teenagers so badly they have to be taken to the hospital. A small girl and her mother who kneel to pray on the steps of city hall are arrested and taken to jail. Seventy-five children are squeezed into a cell built for eight prisoners. Television cameras capture, and broadcast worldwide, what is happening to Birmingham's children . Decent people everywhere are outraged. Most haven't realized how bad things are for most blacks in the segregated South. Now they can see for themselves.