Essence Magazine:
By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 3, 2023
It had been eight years since Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat on the bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the fight toward desegregation was stagnating. Civil rights leaders needed something that would reignite the cause and those committed, and they finally got one in the spring of 1963, “after an unorthodox plan to recruit Black children to
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