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Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Children's March of nineteen sixty three,

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Speaker 1: a historical moment that doesn't get nearly the recognition that deserves.

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Speaker 1: And honestly, when I first heard about it, I thought, wait,

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Speaker 1: kids did what cause, let's be real. When I was

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Speaker 1: a kid, all the time, I did anything revolutionaries.

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Speaker 2: When I was taking Kurt Franklin, do you want a revolution?

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Speaker 2: What's that? Do you want a revolution?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe no, I didn't know. Maybe you did. I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: But not these kids in Birmingham, Alabama. They weren't playing

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Speaker 1: around Jack. There were nineteen sixty three and Birmingham was

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Speaker 1: the most racist city in the country.

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Speaker 2: Segregation was everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Schools, buses, bathrooms, water fountains, And I'm thinking, how racist

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Speaker 1: do you have to be to hate somebody at a

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Speaker 1: water fountain?

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Speaker 2: You upset that they getting hydrated. It's silly.

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Speaker 1: And the adults have been protesting for months. But the

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Speaker 1: CID he wasn't budgeting. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

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Speaker 2: And his crew.

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Speaker 1: They started quoting Jay z and said we need more people.

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Speaker 1: That's when James Bevill said, I've got a plan. Let's

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Speaker 1: get the kids involved.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what parents sat down with their ten

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Speaker 1: year old and said, listen, pack of lunch, baby, cause

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Speaker 1: you're going to fight Jim Crow today.

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Speaker 2: But they did it, and the kids they showed up.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of them left school and gathered at the sixteenth

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Speaker 1: Street Baptist Church like it were recess. And instead of dodgeballs,

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Speaker 1: they were like, hey, we're gonna dodge dogs, fire hoses

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Speaker 1: and billy clubs today. Seriously, that's some next level courage

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Speaker 1: right there. We're talking about kids.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Imagine being a racist police officer that day. You out

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Speaker 1: here ready to fight, and then you see a group

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Speaker 1: of twelve year olds chatting for freedom. What do you

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Speaker 1: even do? Well, apparently, if you're racist Birmingham police in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, you turned into cartoon villains. They brought

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Speaker 1: out fire hoses, fire hoses to blast these kids off

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Speaker 1: their feet, unleash the dogs on them kids like it

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Speaker 1: was a twisted Last Year episode. Some of y'all don't

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Speaker 1: remember Lastie, But here's the thing. Them kids didn't stop.

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Speaker 1: They got arrested by one hundreds, thrown in jail like

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Speaker 1: it was a field trip to Alcatraz. And more kids

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Speaker 1: just kept showing up day after day. They started putting

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Speaker 1: on their swimsuits to prepare for the fire hoses. They marched,

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Speaker 1: they sang, and they did not back down kids. And

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Speaker 1: it worked because the news saw them pictures, kids getting

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Speaker 1: hosed down and attacked by dogs, and the whole world

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Speaker 1: saw them pictures. You google Children's March of nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: three right now, and you can see them pictures. Suddenly,

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Speaker 1: people just couldn't ignore the civil rights movement any longer.

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Speaker 1: That Children's March of nineteen sixty three pushed momentum forward

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Speaker 1: and led to the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four.

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Speaker 1: That's right, a bunch of kids in pigtails, corn rows

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Speaker 1: and penny loafers helped change the laws. Now, why we

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Speaker 1: don't hear more about this? I think it's because the

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Speaker 1: dusts don't like being shown up by the kids. Don't

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Speaker 1: nobody want to admit that a ten year old with

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Speaker 1: a homemade sign had more guts than most of us

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Speaker 1: do right now, But the lesson here is real. You

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Speaker 1: ain't gotta wait till you're older, or richer, or more

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Speaker 1: established to make an impact. These kids took risk because

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Speaker 1: they believed in something bigger than themselves.

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Speaker 2: So next time you think what.

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Speaker 1: Can I really do to change things, just remember if

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Speaker 1: a bunch of kids with no smartphones, no hashtags, no

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Speaker 1: TikTok followers can bring down segregation, what's stopping us? Let's

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Speaker 1: all channel a little bit of nineteen sixty three energy,

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Speaker 1: shall we? Black folks? Black folks we channeling. We don't

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Speaker 1: need no white folks channel in nineteen sixty three energy,

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Speaker 1: because history don't just happen. It gets made, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's made by people who ain't even old enough to drive.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. No,