Image from CRMvet.org. “On the orders of Bull Connor, high-pressure firehoses are used against young demonstrators.”

For resources on the 16^th Street Church Bombing of 1963, click here.

Resources

The 16^th Street Baptist Church website.

Bob Adelman: Photographing the Birmingham Movement.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

CRMvet.org:

• Birmingham movement resources.
• Photos of the Birmingham Movement.

Kelly Ingram Park.

Kids In Birmingham, 1963.

Stanford’s MLK Institute: The Birmingham Campaign.

Documentaries

The Conscience of America: Birmingham’s Fight For Civil Rights.

Mighty Times: The Children’s March.

Shuttlesworth.

Movement Leaders on Birmingham

James Farmer: Guilty Bystanders.

Martin Luther King:

• Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
• Stephen Rose interviewing King, 1963.

Bayard Rustin: The Meaning of Birmingham.

Fred Shuttlesworth:

• Birmingham Shall be Free Some Day.
• Oral history with Fred Shuttlesworth (video.)

Books

Taylor Branch: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63.

Glenn T. Eskew: But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle.

W. Edward Harris: Miracle in Birmingham: A Civil Rights Memoir 1954-1965.

Horace Huntley & David Montgomery (editors): Black Workers’ Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.

Martin Luther King: Why We can’t Wait.

Cynthia Levinson: We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March.

Andrew M. Manis: A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.

Andrew M. Manis & Marjorie L. White (editors): Birmingham’s Revolutionaries: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.

Diane McWhorter: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.

Nick Patterson: Birmingham Foot Soldiers: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement.

Children’s Books

Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963.

Carole Boston Weatherford: Birmingham, 1963.

Articles

Brandon Byrd: Birmingham in Five Acts.

Code Switch: Remembering Birmingham’s ‘Dynamite Hill’ Neighborhood.

David Garrow: Many Birminghams: Taking Segregationists Seriously.

Kim Gilmore: The Birmingham Children’s Crusade of 1963: The pivotal event of the civil rights movement opened the eyes of the nation through the courageous activism of its youngest citizens.

Andrew M. Manis: The Civil Rights leader nobody knows on his 100th birthday.

Jatara McGee: Daughter of civil rights giant recounts Christmas bombing, school integration attempt.

Diane McWhorter:

• Good and Evil in Birmingham.
• Marching in King’s Shadow.

Jon Nordheimer: Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89.

NPR: 60 years since ‘The Children’s Crusade’ changed Birmingham and the nation.

Jimmy Rop: Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011).

Tish Harrison Warren: The Astonishing Moral Beauty of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the Black Church.

Wikipedia:

• Birmingham campaign.
• Fred Shuttlesworth.

Zinn Education Project: May 2, 1963: Children of Birmingham Fill the Jails.