how were the students recruited in the campaign?
Bevel recruited girls who were school leaders and boys who were athletes. evel and the SCLC held workshops to help students overcome their fear of dogs and jails.
Birmingham campaign
To re-energize the campaign, SCLC organizer James Bevel devised a controversial alternative plan he named D Day that was later called the "Children's Crusade" by "Newsweek" magazine. D Day called for students from Birmingham elementary schools and high schools as well as nearby Miles College to take part in the demonstrations.

Bevel, a veteran of earlier nonviolent student protests with the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC, had been named SCLC's Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education. After initiating the idea he organized and educated the students in nonviolence tactics and philosophy. King hesitated to approve the use of children, but Bevel believed that children were appropriate for the demonstrations because jail time for them would not hurt families economically as much as the loss of a working parent. He also saw that adults in the black community were divided about how much support to give the protests. Bevel and the organizers knew that high school students were
when did the birmingham campaign start and end 1963 what is the campaign about? To bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities, and violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems. who was leading the campaign? Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others what kind of impact did the campaign have? It led to an awakening to the evils of segregation and a need for reforms in the region; The 'rules of the game' in race relations were permanently changed in Birmingham; was the first aforementioned person leading the campaign arrested during the campaign? Yes - he was held in the Birmingham jail and was denied a consultation with an attorney from the NAACP without guards present. describe the reaction of the city? Bull Connor obtained an injunction barring the protests and raised the bail bond for those arrested; Incoming mayor Albert Boutwell called King and the SCLC organizers "strangers" whose only purpose in Birmingham was "to stir inter-racial discord". describe a few goals of the campaign? Desegregation of Birmingham's downtown stores, fair hiring practices in shops and city employment, the reopening of public parks, and the creation of a bi-racial committee to oversee the desegregation of Birmingham's public schools.
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Birmingham campaign [SEP] Recruiting students
Despite the publicity surrounding King's arrest, the campaign was faltering because few demonstrators were willing to risk arrest. In addition, although Connor had used police dogs to assist in the arrest of demonstrators, this did not attract the media attention that organizers had hoped for. To re-energize the campaign, SCLC organizer James Bevel devised a controversial alternative plan he named D Day that was later called the "Children's Crusade" by "Newsweek" magazine. D Day called for students from Birmingham elementary schools and high schools as well as nearby Miles College to take part in the demonstrations. Bevel, a veteran of earlier nonviolent student protests with the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC, had been named SCLC's Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education.